Someone once said
“If you think this world is sane, you have declared your own insanity.”
We are called
To shine our light
In the darkness
To stand out
In this world
To rise above it
To overcome it
St. John 16:33
“In the world, ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
I John 4:4
“…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
Matthew 5:14
“Ye are the light of the world.”
I am in this world
Though not of it
I am the creator
Within the created
Christ in me
It is not the end
Of the world
It is the end
Of the illusion
The end of lies
It is the end
Of our faith
The salvation
Of our souls
When the truth
Of who we are
Comes to light
I Peter 1:9
“Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls”
Every story has a hero or heroine
And an adversary
And the story is written
Within a time and a place
And the story line is such that
Said hero or heroine
Must overcome the adversary
To save the world
Or maybe the story is such that
The hero must overcome
The adversary
To save the heroine
The Bible is such a story
The hero is Jesus Christ
And he came to save the world
To set us free from sin
The adversary
David slew Goliath with a stone
Daniel survived the lion’s den
And Christ overcame the world
We are either the hero
Or the adversary
If Christ is with us
Who can be against us
I John 4:5
“…because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
What you put
Into the world
Will return to you
As one who is sent
Returns to the one
Who sent him
And the one
Who sent him
Will receive
The one who
Returns to him
As his own self
St. John 14:3
“I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
St. John 17:5
“And now, O’ Father, glorify me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
We rejoice in that
Which we knew
In the beginning
Before the foundation
Of the world
St. John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word…”
As children of God
We are placed into
The hands of the world
And when we come
Into the world
We are not known
The beliefs of our family
And our culture
Shape who we become
But beneath
What shapes us
We are all
Children of God
And we will become him
Like Christ did
Or we will become
Like the world
How the world
Perceives us
Is not who we are
I John 4:4
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
St. John 4:24
“God is a Spirit…”
That which was
Came from
What it would
Become
I am now
Who I was
Before I came
Into the world
Proverbs 8:22-23, 27
“The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When he prepared the heavens, I was there…”
What is our greatest challenge
And who is our worthy opponent
To overcome the world
For we are not of the world
We are of the spirit
St. John 16:33
“…but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
I John 4:4
“…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
It is not the end
Of the world
It is the end
Of the illusion
The end of lies
It is the end
Of our faith
The salvation
Of our souls
When the truth
Of who we are
Comes to light
I Peter 1:9
“Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”
