an enemy exists...

Our enemy’s a thief, his hope and will:

to steal, kill and destroy, to win like fire,

by conquest and devouring so to fill

his never-ending hunger and desire.

Our enemy makes people do as he

would wish, to fill his appetite and void.

Our God makes people to be fully free,

so he sent Jesus to help us avoid

the empty way of life passed down the line,

he came to give us riches that were his,

abundant, satisfying life sublime,

with love and joy that fills us up, and is

beyond the kind of life that slavery gives,

it almost doesn't matter what the law

says, for when someone knows God's love and lives

in love, then we find what this God is ”for”,

and also what he sets himself “against”.

He loves his children, each daughter & son,

his aim is not to see his children fenced,

but see them free, to this end he’s begun(!)

-by sending our big brother to this Earth

& helping us to want to be like him,

by seeing how he lived, and grew from birth,

and never let that fire of love grow dim.

And spent his life in service, ‘coz of love

& showed us how to die, and wash away

that self-willed life that won't tune in above.

Oh God I want to follow him today!

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The enemy is a thief, his purpose is to steal, kill and destroy.
Jesus' purpose is to give us a rich and satisfying abundant life  John 10:10. (PM Version)

We are no longer living like slaves under the law, but we enjoy being Gods very own sons and daughters!
And because we are His children we can access everything our Father has through Jesus Christ.  Galatians 4:7 (PM Version)