salvation

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"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

28 days ago, I asked a heartfelt question
Born of hurt and uncertainty, and full of desperation
6 little monosyllabic words, that aren’t very much to see,
Formed the simple, yet complex sentence, ‘What do you see in me?’
So as I strummed on my guitar, I repeated it like a mantra
Between tears of grief and sobs of pain, I felt as dead as cancer.
The words seemed stuck within a void, bouncing off the ceiling
The loneliness and isolation was an unbearable feeling.
Fast forward a few more days and I received an answer there
When reading a devotion and giving myself to prayer
This God breakthrough filled the hole. It made me so glad when
God told me I was His treasured possession, a beautiful to behold gem.
What joy!  What release!  At last, a truth that set me free.
To hear just what my Father God truly thinks of me!
And so each day, though trials still come amidst uncertainty
God pours out His blessing so much, it overflows the sea.
I desperately want more of this truth, I no longer will abide
With my constant companion, A.K.A. the King Lie.
But I will lay all my brokenness at the feet of the King of Kings
And see what trade He will make, we what treasure He brings.
But now I just need to praise, thank Him for all He has done,
And it all began on Calvary, with the sacrifice of His Son.
To think that He would die for me, at my absolute worse
To be a perfect sacrifice that would break the curse.
I’m free! I’m free! I’ve been redeemed! O thank You Christ my Saviour
Now you’re turning a tasteless life into 1 that’s full of flavour.
Please continue your work in me, every day, even when I’m old.
I want to be more and more transformed into Jesus’ mould.
And then 1 sweet day, I’ll be with You, for all eternity.
I can even imagine sitting on my Father’s knee.
So thank You for all you’ve done and all You’re going to do.
I can’t wait to live the rest of my life with You!

(c) Mark Bryant 2018

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It’s not the end.

The book isn’t finished

It’s not the final chapter.

It’s just the end of one

But there’s unwritten stuff in the in-betweens

Where you’re expecting some sort of closure,

There’s hidden stuff written behind the scenes.

One chapter ends, and a new one begins

Even before any visible writing

Sometimes the lack of visible material is frightening.

And that’s the life of tension, in the seams.

Life is an open book,

Sometimes dust gathers

The clean pages can become stained and worn

Character.

The result of endurance when facing problems

Trials

Strengthened character, strengthens confident hope,

Hope of something better

Hope of things yet to come

The confident hope of something that can’t be destroyed

Will never end

Salvation

Mortal life is a finite book.

The chapters will show but stages

Childhood, teen years, education and profession

Family

But so much is written in the seams

That effects our eternity.

The next chapter isn’t the be all,

Just like the last chapter wasn’t the end all

God’s working cover to cover, in the seams.