Glory

Growth
Growth

He is omniscient
   all-omnipresent
       infinite always
       in charge of
                 all days.

We are known
   but unknowing,
            lost on our own
      yet with Him
            growing.
Every short minute
            coming
              or
            going,
      we are like sky light,
            fading
              and
            finite.

Still we will live on
            forever
            foregone,
            from when
              we were conceived.

Don’t be
     naive.
Don’t be
     deceived.

We’re agile
           and
          fragile,
          loved
           and
          beloved
       beyond the external.

We aren’t eternal.
    We’ll never be.

But we were designed
 both outside
         and
        inside
     of a clear space
                    and
                   time
 to be
   right where He placed us,
         empowered
         entrusted,
         attitudes adjusted,
         set apart from the rest
         persecuted
           and
         blessed
 to be
   who He called us,
         transformed from dust
                          from without
                          from within
 to shed light on Him,
         through the bright
         through the dim,
 to love Him and others
 to be sisters and brothers,
 to be part of His story
         and give Him
             the glory.

 

 

Painting inspired by The Anatomy of a Disciple.