Church Meeting Lying

Church Meeting Lying
By Larry Linville

I was asked to speak at a church
and I said I’d surely do it.
Then recalled I would miss a game
and began to really rue it.

Let me come up with an excuse
I could employ to call it off.
Just like a big fat selfish hog
forcing my way up to the trough.

Excuses all seemed very lame
there has to be a good one
to get free of the commitment
to witness for God’s only Son.

Before making that vital call
and telling the church a big lie
I began to feel like Judas
Saying “Dear Lord, Is it I?”

Lying seems so commonplace
and it’s nothing very odd
but I just couldn’t let myself
lie about church things to God.

I kept my word and I am glad.
What more do I need to say!
The game was not that day at all.
It was played the very next day.

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