Hypocrite's Hopelessness

“So are the paths of all that forget God… the hypocrite's hope shall perish: whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure” (Job 8:13-15). 

There is a tendency today

To think that by forgetting God

That He will somehow go away:

So are the paths that fools have trod.

Still many choose to walk that path,

Content with their hypocrisy.

It is the way that ends in wrath

And hopelessness eternally.

Though men may hope until they die

For something they may greatly cherish,

Hypocrisy is still a lie,

And in the end their hope shall perish!

Like spider’s webs that fill the hand,

Hypocrisy shall not prevail,

For vain excuses shall not stand

And every hope but Christ shall fail.

There is no need to trust in lies

And then to face their consequence!

There’s no excuse to be unwise

And to ignore God’s evidence. 

Without You, Lord, we cannot win:

There is no other Hiding Place.

Your light has now exposed our sin,

Yet in that light we see Your grace!

Lord, thank You for the invitation

To cast hypocrisy aside

That You may clothe us with salvation,

Presented faultless as Your bride!