And now I'm thinking of the job He gave
the first ambassadors of his new rule,
to go and make communities who'd save
& show the life of Jesus Christ - the fool,
who'd let them mock & spit on him & hit
him, dress him up, then take his clothes right off,
he trusted God with every little bit
to vindicate him - raise him up aloft.
The timing was important in his life:
those kairos times in private, public too*,
they helped him cut through doubt just like a knife,
& helped him see what he'd call men to do.
* e.g.Mark 1:16, the first sign in Cana in speaking with Mary and responding to her faith, in going up to the temple after his faithless brothers had left, in calling Peter to walk to him on the water (Matt), in answering Nathaniel's taunts(John), & responding to the 4 who let their parslysed friend down in front of him(Mark 2), in castigating an awareness of weather propensities but not the times they lived in (Lk 12- end) etc...
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