A Letter to the Ruler of This World
You and I, we’ve had quite a time together.
From the day my eyes opened,
you were there,
offering me delights, pleasures, smiles…
And how eager I was to partake!
You showed my the height of ecstasy,
all the tangible pleasures I could handle,
all the fleeting joy of a fading world.
Oh, how eager I was!
But the truth is…
There is nothing but Death in you…
All of your delights are an end,
all of your pleasures are sins,
all of your smiles are vanity.
No, do not tell me how unworthy I am!
I know just how unworthy I am…
I have sown so much evil, so much hurt…
But when Jesus Christ,
the Son of God,
the King of Kings,
the Prince of Peace
strectched out His arms and bowed His head
and said, “It is finished!”…
It was finished.
And you, oh fallen one,
were finished with it.
So don’t waste your lies on me.
Don’t waste your deceitful words.
For I know the One who has called my name.
And His words are Life and Truth.
And His words have spoken the most important
words in all eternity…
His words have spoken the end of Death and the grave…
And He has spoken your end…
You are defeated.
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Frederick Buechner
The Magnificent Defeat
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That’s okay too…
“Oh Christ, when you’re ready to come back
I think I’m ready for you to come back
But if you want to stay wherever exactly it is you are
That’s okay too -
It’s really none of my business.”
-mewithoutYou
Great band. And amazing lyrics.
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This is the astounding truth of Jesus Christ:
Throughout all of eternity, Jesus dwelled with the Father. They were together, One.
Yet, seeing His creation engulfed in sin and grasping for Truth, He came to us in the form of man.
And when He died on the cross, He was separated from His Father. For one moment, He was just like us, bearing the weight of all sins…
And now He dwells again in Glory. And He is coming back. He is coming for us. He is coming to ransom us from the darkness and pain of this flesh…
I worship Him because He is better to me than I could ever merit on my own.
When He died, covered in my sin, He showed me Life…
-C. R.
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Song of Songs 8:7
7Love cannot be drowned
by oceans or floods;
it cannot be bought,
no matter what is offered.
This is love. This is Truth.
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Martin Luther on Conscience
Train your conscience to believe that God approves of you. Fight it out with doubt. Gain assurance through the Word of God. Say: “I am all right with God. I have the Holy Ghost. Christ, in whom I do believe, makes me worthy. I gladly hear, read, sing, and write of Him.”
-Martin Luther on Galatians 4:6
(via pursuingenlightenment)
leper
i am a leper.
i crawl through chaos,
my home lies in the midst of decay.
infected, i am.
unclean.
i have stoned the fallen,
cast out my equals,
fallen upon my own sword.
i have screamed evil to the winds
and betrayed my own will.
could there be grace for me,
the leper,
the unclean man?
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yet something changed when the Prophet met me…
His words soaked my heart.
His eyes burned in mine.
His Truth destroyed my lies.
and i look to the day…
i look to the day
when He kissed my face
(blighted with sin)
and blessed my wretched hands…
leper am i not.
-C. R. Leverette
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I Shall Pass
I wrote this poem in 2009. It simply describes my longing for the things of God…
I drift like shadows and ashes…
I exist through sacrifice…
I long for deeper Oceans,
far from the plagues of this land…
For my bones have grown hard
And I can hardly move…
My feet are roots
yet I cannot reach the water…
I long for that which sustains,
that which contains
even a fragment of my full self…
For I am wreathed in shadow and covered in ash…
I am not whole; I shall pass…
I long to be whole
for I shall pass…
-C. R. Leverette
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I have a precious son, Josiah.
I follow Jesus Christ.
I am a writer, a musician, a geek, a lover of life.
