October 11
Of His Natural State
Scripture
KJV
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
ESV
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds.
Colossians 1:21
Poem
Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,
We wretched sinners lay,
Without one cheerful beam of hope,
Or spark of glimmering day.