Becoming Christlike

Mosiah 3:19

Kelly L. Barfield

The author lives in South Carolina, USA. Photo illustration by hxdbzxy/iStock/Thinkstock.

poem

The natural man comes easily—

so much effort

to do and be otherwise.

The yielding stretches me

beyond myself—

and is painful.

Drawing out the saint within

requires submission

to a Greater Power.

The enticings are subtle;

and though I fall,

His grace puts off the enemy—

and I become His child.