Ferocious Grace - Creed Series - Christian Lindbeck - Roman's 10:9-10

Broken shards

glued together –

shattered goodness

revived.

Good news:

there is a way

to be clean again!

A way to span the abyss

sin carved between

each of us

and all

of God.

Or is sin a man-made idea,

constructed to manage

and control,

only real if revealed?

David cried out:

Blot out my sin –

shame drains my bones

and shrivels

my strength –

O God,

You see it all

and I have

wounded you,

my Maker.

Created to know

and be known

by God,

to dance in tune

with the Spirit song,

we feel

each lost step.

There is no excuse

or reasoning

that will evaporate

the discordant note

or conceal

the inner darkness

that taints

us all.

We feel it (guilt).

We know it (shame).

We cannot hide.

So here we stand,

broken and flayed open,

every nerve tingling

in awareness of perfidy;

squashed flat

by the burden

of every lie

and broken promise,

words and deeds

as ugly and deadly

as twisted barb wire

pressing down…

And into this state of intense

awareness

He pours His searing mercy,

scalding away the surface scars,

realigning our dented heart,

resuscitating our soul.

We believe…

I believe

in the fact of sin,
in the forgiveness of sin,

in a God of ferocious

grace.