Going Backward.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:24. 

When that still small special voice

tells you not to make a choice,

and you make it anyway --

it is bound to ruin your day.

Going backwards, you can't win

with your actions steeped in sin.

Like Macbeth's imagination,

it may start as mere flirtation;

but when ears are disinclined

to accept God's words refined

there is only grief and pain

(though the world some fools might gain.)

Help me, Lord, go forward to

all that's glorified and true!