Turns out I am a poet and I didn’t even know it. But before we get to the poem I have to say:
TODAY IS THE DAY! I need $1561 left to make my deadline on October 1st! I have an event today “$25 on the 25th” which means I am seeking 60 people to give $25!! Thanks for your support!
And now my poem. Hope it makes sense, I have never really liked poetry. HA.
I go forth to change the world
Like an arrow that pierces the heart
I am pulled backwards
But that is the wrong way!
To move forward
I must try harder
What can I do?
Sometimes I say
I don’t have to do anything.
That is a lie.
I tell myself I must give more, do more.
Until
It is finished.
But
I still look harder to achieve perfection
As stupid as it seems
Perfection
Is Something that has already been accomplished
So what I put my hope in
Are functional saviors.
Money, power, and love
Satisfies me.
Living water:
That’s a lie.
I can change the world
By my own strength.
Once I get better
then
Jesus has won.
Because
I can fail.
I must remember
The responsibility rests on my shoulders.
Never will I say
I am a nobody.
Because Jesus was somebody
I try to be extraordinary.
(Now read each line from the bottom up)
God has been laying on my heart the struggle between Christian narcissism vs. true Jesus-centered living. What is Christian narcissism? Becoming SO obsessed with getting better, doing more. The more I become focused on getting better, the worse I become. I become focused on myself on not on Christ. And all the while becoming trapped in “functional saviors” that satisfy us for a little while but only serve to distract us from Jesus. The Gospel is not a command to do anything, it is a proclamation that God has already done it, “It is finished.”
Because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one. Because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary. Because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail, because Jesus has won for me, I am free to lose.
Remember that Christian! What are you going to do now that you don’t have to do anything?
