IN DEPTH IMAGE OF TORMENT

Luke 16:23. “In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.”

The torment of hell’s no unfounded fancy,

It’s from hell the rich man begs for leniency,

But no matter how his sad voice for help pleads,

No body for this wretched life intercedes.

There in the sheer hell of his daily torment,

He is made much worse, in the very moment

His sad eyes look up, and see there in heaven,

The beggar has the place he is not given.

At Abraham’s side, says the teaching Jesus,

Is the poor beggar, the man named Lazarus;

He’s there at the side of the heavenly one,

Why? Tell me what he’s done that I have not done?

For a different reason, this torment gets worse,

And it’s not because of some demonic curse,

This man had been given the Lord’s rich blessing,

Through it all he knew luxurious living,

He was neither a spendthrift nor a miser,

Yet his good living made him none the wiser;

Now in his hopelessly poor, pathetic state,

He realized he did not with God relate:

This, in depth image of torment, in one’s hell,

A seriously strong warning to me doth tell,

When God’s blessings I share with others freely,

I must never share them according to me.

Amen!