God's Redemptive Love

I haven't shared any of my poems for aaaaages (because I haven't written any shareable ones for ages :P). So I thought maybe you'd like to read this one that I wrote at the beginning of October.

We all stumble and struggle in so many ways

Our hearts are poorly and sickly and weak.

Inside of our turmoil, grief and despair

We quail as our God starts to speak.

We worry he’ll tell us of all of our sin

And show us how we don’t deserve

To be given his love. His unconditional love

We think, surely his grace is reserved!

His mercy’s for those who don’t sin like I do.

He surely cannot just look past

This gargantuan weakness that’s tearing me down

My sin is just like the oceans, it’s vast!

And then we stop and we look up at Him

As he bends down to whisper our name

We’re suddenly quiet and look out of ourselves

Our souls are refreshed in His beautiful rain

And he says to us, “Child, yes, your sin is so great

But I sent down my son to remove

The price you needed to pay. Now there’s nothing but grace

And nothing left of which I disapprove.”

He shows us the Cross, up on Calvary’s hill

And the nail scars in Jesus’s hands

We stand there in awe and imagine the pain

And the wonder of God’s holy plan.

So we walk in the Light. On the narrowest way

And we surrender to the mercy of One

Who gave of himself so that we might be free

And, too, become one of God’s Sons.

May you be blessed today.