Discernment

When contemplating spirituality,
I find it most adviseable to know
What suffers most unpopularity,
For human nature dislikes hearing "No".
Faith is unwanted when it bears a price.
No one likes an inconvenient truth
That rquires self-denial, sacrifice.
So when I look for spiritual proof,
I look for what is hated and reviled,
Condemned and ridiculed, and called a fraud.
That which drives the common wisdom wild
Is likeliest to be the word of God.
Our fallen state's revealed in the remark,
The human heart hates truth, and seeks the dark.