do you really believe?

James 2:1–10 (14–17) 

In walk the well-dressed,
well-kept, well-mannered
members of the assembly;
How are you and how do you do, 
and please sit next to me. 

In walk the untidy, unwashed,
ill-mannered poor
members of the assembly;
cough. Oh, you, what shall we do? 
wouldn't you be happiest in the corner? 

Is this the way of Jesus the Christ?
Do we honour him with our judgment,
unkindness, snobbery, disdain?

Or has not the Holy chosen the poor
as heirs to the Holy Realm?

Love your neighbour, every neighbour,
Jesus said, and Jesus did; and thus
we will keep the law of Love,
thus enter the Holy Realm, together.