growing up

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.   1 Corinthians 13:11-13

‘stop being a child, grow up so that you might teach the truth to those behind you before it is too late. Keep your sight focused on the light, follow the word of God, not the doctrines of men’

I have done so many things

I did not want to do,

but I did them anyway,

knowing the whole time

they were wrong,

they were perverse,

I couldn’t help myself,

I was powerless,

I was a slave,

I was a pawn,

I was a pathetic little worm

crawling on its belly

through the mud and slime,

struggling just to survive

even a moment in time;

now I am not alone,

now I have One

so much greater than I,

now I have His mercy,

now I have His power,

now I have His unspeakable love

to lift me up,

now I have the victory,

now I am forgiven;

O my Lord,

my dear, sweet, precious Lord,

I love You so very much,

if it be Your will let me be

a common foot soldier,

living only to be trampled asunder,

like fodder before the killing machine,

gladly laying down my life

for the children of Your light,

asking for nothing but to serve

in Your blessed kingdom.

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