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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: LUST (all-consuming desire; excessive craving) (01/08/15)
Craving more than our basic needs
Can be ambitious--or ignite greed
Desiring money, status and more power
Idolaters succumb each day, each hour

Worldly idols cause souls to surrender
Each truth compromised adds to hell’s tinder
Extreme hunger for worldly goals
Corrupts even an innocent soul

. . . and lust shall rise from Satan’s hole
Don’t bite the bait that poisons souls

What gets you out of bed each day
And when you awake, do you pray
Which type of soil feeds your roots
Heavenly mulch or hellish soot

How can one purge each wrong desire
That tempts and teases with Hades fire
A thorough cleansing needs to start
To rid decay from withered hearts

. . .and lust shall rise from Satan’s den
Don’t taste the bait that helps him win

Recognize the lure that brightly dangles
Underneath the glitz are lies that mangle
And hopes that die a sorry death
Because they float on Satan’s breath

Turn from deceits, it’s getting late
Dispose of what contaminates
Search for the light that’s breaking through
Look up, now live a life anew

. . .be renewed in the spirit of your minds
Allowing God’s love to mend and bind

Ephesians 4:21-24 (NLT) Since you have heard all about him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness--righteous, holy and true.
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Sheldon Bass 
01/15/15
Oh I really like this piece. At first, the opening quatrain didn't click with me. But then as I read it through a second time it meshed much better.

I had copied my favorite stanzas to tell you about, but then decided my favorite was this one instead: "Recognize the lure that brightly dangles
Underneath the glitz are lies that mangle
And hopes that die a sorry death
Because they float on Satan’s breath"

It has a good cadence and depth of meaning. Great work!
C D Swanson 
01/16/15
Great job! Well done.

God bless~
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
01/23/15
This is perfect. What a delight to read. You nailed the heart of the topic while covering the many ways one can lust. Congratulations on ranking 17 overall! Happy Dance!