Poetry
Key to the Kingdom
I see the world before me with eyes once blind, now open
So much hurt and pain.
So much pride and self.
I've followed ways of man in wonderment and awe.
Casting down vain imaginations and bowing to leaders with shepherd's nook grasped firmly in their hands.
I've danced the dance and sang the songs that told me I was saved.
I let the oil of anointing run swiftly down my brow telling me I was whole.
I listened to words from leaders telling me to fast, telling me not to fast, telling me to give, and telling me to save.
I heard them speak of abundance; I heard them speak of lack and want.
I've been pulled from each direction and ran in circles just to find You.
It wasn't until I resolved myself that I found you sitting there with eyes alight and full of fire.
You didn't ask me questions or tell me what I wanted to hear.
You just were.
I knew that persecution and suffering would arise to meet me and they came- swiftly.
From every direction they followed after me from spirits adorned in religion.
They cast me from their meeting places and told me that prosperity was the key to the Kingdom.
But I knew better.
You didn't have to say anything you just pointed me to the way.
Rounding corners and over hills of self I found the key.
It was lowly and humble - ugly at best.
My eyes gazed upon it and my spirit groaned within me.
There before my eyes the key - The Cross.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
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