What is a Christian?
A Christian is a man or woman, a boy or girl.
A person of any nationality, any background.
A person who stands beside their own grave from which thay've been pulled.
Alive where life was gone.
A Christian is a person that knows this new life was nothing they found.
It was nothing they earned, nothing they deserved.
A Christian knows that their existance is a living memorial to the work of Jesus.
They understand that their spirit was dead, beyond hope, beyond life and light.
They know that the only life they had was one of flesh, evil perverted, unclean.
They know what rebirth is - they've been there!
And now, a Christian becomes a baby, a child.
They have needs they never knew.
A sheep forever following the familiar voice of it's Shepherd.
They long for a place they've never been,
They crave to be with a family they've never before known.
Love pure and true becomes both a path and a promise.
Faith they've never had becomes a force stronger than bones or flesh.
They care.
And now, a Christian knows a feeling of conflict,
To stay and work, to go home and rejoyce.
Standing on the edge between rapture and tribulation.
Able to see heaven and hell,
Wanting to run into the arms of Jesus,
Wanting to work in the fields of earth.
They know they are adopted into the family of God.
Yet they would give their time, possessions, their very life for others.
Living between the ages,
A past of sin, forgotten,
A future of eternal hope.
Watching, waiting.
A person that sheds tears of joy for self and tears of sorrow for the lost...
At the same time.
A servant who will rule,
A ruler that surrenders all.
A song without end, a prayer, a sacrifice, a praise.
What is a Christian?
A Christian is an imperfect reflection of a perfect God,
looking forward to someday being a perfect reflection.
"But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you]."
1 Peter 5:10
A Christian is a man or woman, a boy or girl.
A person of any nationality, any background.
A person who stands beside their own grave from which thay've been pulled.
Alive where life was gone.
A Christian is a person that knows this new life was nothing they found.
It was nothing they earned, nothing they deserved.
A Christian knows that their existance is a living memorial to the work of Jesus.
They understand that their spirit was dead, beyond hope, beyond life and light.
They know that the only life they had was one of flesh, evil perverted, unclean.
They know what rebirth is - they've been there!
And now, a Christian becomes a baby, a child.
They have needs they never knew.
A sheep forever following the familiar voice of it's Shepherd.
They long for a place they've never been,
They crave to be with a family they've never before known.
Love pure and true becomes both a path and a promise.
Faith they've never had becomes a force stronger than bones or flesh.
They care.
And now, a Christian knows a feeling of conflict,
To stay and work, to go home and rejoyce.
Standing on the edge between rapture and tribulation.
Able to see heaven and hell,
Wanting to run into the arms of Jesus,
Wanting to work in the fields of earth.
They know they are adopted into the family of God.
Yet they would give their time, possessions, their very life for others.
Living between the ages,
A past of sin, forgotten,
A future of eternal hope.
Watching, waiting.
A person that sheds tears of joy for self and tears of sorrow for the lost...
At the same time.
A servant who will rule,
A ruler that surrenders all.
A song without end, a prayer, a sacrifice, a praise.
What is a Christian?
A Christian is an imperfect reflection of a perfect God,
looking forward to someday being a perfect reflection.
"But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you]."
1 Peter 5:10
Grace and Peace....
