"Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue: and it shall be unto to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: that ye may remember, and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God" (Numbers 15:38-40).
The people of Israel had such an order
To aid to them in keeping their calling in view:
On each of their garments they placed on the border
A holy reminder, a ribbon of blue.
That heavenly color was there to recall
Commandments from which they should never depart,
And served as a warning to great and to small
To not go astray through the lusts of their heart.
Those borders may also remind us as well
To seek not the lusts of our heart and our eyes.
Since we are God's people delivered from hell,
We're called to be heavenly, holy, and wise.
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