PEARLY WHITES TO PEARLY GATES

I once worked for a dentist. His wife was his assistant. The dentist was also an elder in a church I once attended. I wrote this for them just for fun.

PEARLY WHITES TO PEARLY GATES

(or The Truth From a Tooth)

What can be worse than a rotten tooth?

You may learn if others you are bashing. 

Besides the toothache, you may land in hell, 

Where there's wailing, and teeth are gnashing. 

Do not trade a tooth for a tooth, 

Or you won't walk on streets of gold, 

For we'll enter heaven by the skin of our teeth, 

And you won’t have your teeth to take hold.

Persecution will thicken the skin of your teeth;

Thin-skinned people will never get in.

You can flash your pearly whites all around,

Smiles are nice, but they must have some skin

A doctor of sorts whose only crown,

Was not a tooth but a wreath,

Can give each of you great wisdom,

But not in your very back teeth.

So visit with Christ regularly.

So in sin you are not impacted.

If you become like a rotten tooth,

You, too, may be extracted.

Let your pearly whites face the pearly gates,

Where there is no pain or decay.

The path is narrow and few will enter,

Through Jesus, the only way.

Becky Wall

Job 19:20 - I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped (death) only by the skin of my teeth.

Matthew 13:50 - and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 5:38 - “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

Proverbs 25:19 - Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.

Exodus 21:27 - And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth. (This verse shows how important teeth are.)

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