I bowled up to the officers at customs. “You’ll have to surrender your self reliance”, they informed me, “and any hope of earning or deserving any entrance.” Placing my motheaten garment on the scanning machine I walked through to the other side, waiting for its appearance as it rolled along the conveyor. Out it came, but…
“This is not my coat”, I protested. My coat was soiled, ragged and torn.” What I now held in my hands was a perfectly white robe.
“You could never fit in that”, my internal judgements still rang, yet when I slipped my arms through, never had a garment fitted so comfortably. “It was made for me!” I thought, “or…was I made for it?”
“Step this way sir” said a somewhat glorious guardian, “10,000 times 10,000 remain to claim their inheritance.”
“Enjoy your stay” said another, and with that I took my first steps into what can only be described as…home. Finally, I was home.
Here is a poem I wrote a while ago. If you want to post it, feel free.
OH MY GOD!!
One day we’re out Walkin’
Just walkin’ and talkin’
And you say it….
We all do sometimes…
OH MY GOD!
I don’t catch it at first
‘cuz it’s such a common verse.
But then it hits me…
HARD…
Right in the face.
And I’m instantly transported to that place
That place deep in my Heart-Mind
Where He talks to me all the time.
My prayer closet, spirit wallet, whatever it is you wanna callit..
You know the place…
It’s where you bow your head
Or lift your face
Or raise your hands and sing His praise…
THAT PLACE
Now we’re still walkin’
And you’re still talkin’
And what you said you’ve long forgotten…
Then I really start to think.
What you said…
It fills my head…
OH…..MY…..GOD
My…..GOD
MY…..GOD
.
.
The God who saved David from the lion
Who brought his people into Zion
Whose Mercy gets me cryin’
Who’s forever got me tryin’
TO LIVE UP…
Oh God, I’ll never give up!
How could I?
You never did
.
.
You showed me how to push on.
You saw the Cross and still got on.
You went for me because I couldn’t
You went for us because we couldn’t
EVER
.
Earn our way
Or work our way
Buy
Sell
Or pray our way
Into Heaven..
Not without..
MY God
Our GOD
See, he paid with blood, and flesh and Love
His Grace is always More Than Enough
What it comes down to
Plain and simple
Is Love
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
So that whoever believes in him shall never die,
But have Everlasting Life!
That’s Love.
Love that saves,
Makes free men from slaves,
Makes the broken whole
And cleanses wicked souls.
Makes preachers out of prostitutes.
It’s love that makes drug addicts into youth pastors…
That takes normal people
And makes them
Missionaries and prophets.
Love that took me
And made
ME
He told us to love one another as He loved us.
But do we?
Sure we do nice things for others
And we’re polite to one another
But is that Love?
Or Courtesy?…
Do I love others enough to talk about HIM?
OH! MY GOD!
So I say to my friend
As we’re walkin’ and talkin’
Do you know Him?
Who? You say.
MY GOD…THAT’S WHO!
He knows you.
He loves you.
Wants fellowship with you.
Sent his son to the Cross for you.
JESUS…That’s who
See, he died, and rose again.
Conquered death, fear, pain and sin
So there’d never need to be
Another blood sacrifice to cover me.
He set this time aside for us
To talk about His awesome Love.
He’s known you since before your birth
He’s watched you as you walk the earth.
He knows your hopes
He knows your fears.
Jesus waited for you all these years.
He put us here, together, right now
For Such a Time as This
Take your sinners heart and make it his.
Then see what you feel
When you say
OH MY GOD
.
.
Steve Alberts
2003