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» pink101 - Man of Sorrows

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Some of you might recall that I spend some time helping out a veteran who has fallen on hard times.
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I've known, for some short time now, that he is a victim of Crack Cocaine.
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He is impoverished and limps along on different odd jobs like cutting grass in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter. He is a house painter by trade and gets odd jobs painting. He just can't keep a steady job. When I learned he was a Crack-Head, I understood his lack of commitment.
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About six weeks ago, he came into a tidy sum of a little over $30 M. Today, he called asking me to drive him to an errand. (He lost his driver's license some years ago.). When I picked him up, I noticed how wasted he was. I soon learned that the devil that goes by the name of Crack Cocaine had got his every penny except for five dollars he had left in his pocket.
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He, truly, is a "son of man". How sad it is that our society can spend billions of dollars at the behest of multi-nationals while a terrible evil like Crack Cocaine is allowed to exist in our neighborhoods. I thought about this song that I haven't heard from more than fifty years. I wonder what today's churchies are thinking in their Calvinist minds that they are so involved in their satisfactions of being blessed.
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Man of sorrows what a name
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim
Halleluiah what a savior
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Bearing shame and scoffing rude
In my place condemned He stood
Sealed my pardon with His blood
Halleluiah what a savior
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Guilty, vile and helpless we
Spotless lamb of God was He
Full atonement can it be
Halleluiah what a savior
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Lifted up was He to die
It is finished was His cry
Now in heaven exalted high
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord
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When He comes our glorious king
All his ransomed home to bring
Then anew this song we'll sing
Halleluiah Halleluiah
Halleluiah what a savior
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Instead, we worry about such things as whether or not Jesus is God or how the universe was created and if there really was a Noah's Ark and a flood.
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Gimmee a break!! There is a real world out here, ladies*.
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* Ladies = U.S.Marine Corps lingo used to address men that live an overly protected life style.
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-- posted by pink101