money, what is it?
lands, houses, possessions, what of these?
jobs, positions, achievement, prestige what I attained, dust in the wind.
recognition, ego driven conclusions, time, what are these?
chaff to be burned on the rubbish heap of self deluded and self motivated ambitions.
oh, to trade it all now for the eternal, the lasting,
the God given priorities that would have changed the present.
it would have changed the past so that the present would not be smothering me now. suffocating under this guilt robbing me of life to face another day.
it is what it is.
it cannot be undone, shattered by my anger,
or changed just by my will of thought.
no, but......it can be redeemed. forgiven
Christ the example, the one who was bruised, broken, bled,
and obeyed His Father and took my sin upon Him.
on that day it was black, electricity filled the air,
even the minutest of molecules were charged and reacted to the day of execution. but......redemption drew near.
He rose, gloriously rose even though the past has overwhelmed me
with revelations of darkness, sin, and danger,
and the present seems to threaten to undo me,
the future is filled with the God who says He will give back what the locust has eaten,
He will redeem.
Hope.....there is always hope....
1 comments:
Love how you bring in God's promise of restoring what the locusts have eaten. That is a core verse for my husband and me, who lived so many years without being aware of His grace.
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