Good Ole Joe
Luke 12:49-59
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by W. Robert McClelland

To love people as Jesus did is to stand for something. G. K. Chesterton observed that tolerance is the easy virtue of people who do not believe anything. Some unknown bard has put the observation poetically.

Popularity was his middle name.
Its prod was pride, its price was pain.
He never learned the word called, "no."
They spoke of him as "good old Joe."

His life was one long laughing spell,
and how he felt you couldn't tell.
His favorite words were "yes," and "sure."
Yes, good old Joe was Simon Pure.

So when he died they wrote these lines,
and laid him down midst whispering pines.
"Here lies a man - his name was Joe.
But what he stood for, we'll never know."

You couldn't have said that about Jesus. If you listened you knew what he beleived.

CSS Publishing Company, Inc., Fire in the Hole, by W. Robert McClelland