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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

Not By Merit

There is no way to justify myself

Before God’s throne
By any act of mine. No I must come

By faith alone.
My trust must be in Christ my Advocate

For if I try
To plead my cause on my own merit I

Am sure to die.

Neither my noble deeds nor my intent
Can ever win

My case. My righteousness, a filthy rag
I stained with sin.

Christ is the door. If robber-like I try

To scale the wall,
Or if I would go in some other way

I only fall
I cannot of myself be good enough.

Faith is the root

Of my salvation. Any good I do
Is but the fruit.

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