where does the cross fit in?

If sin is falling short of, or missing, the mark we’re aiming for..

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Well why do I so often want to show

that I am justified in my own choice?

Is it because I don’t want to be bro-

ken, or some faulty kind of merchandoise ?

I’m wanting to be worth the while for one

or other of my fellow humans here.

I know, assume, that judgement has begun.

From what Christ said, that’s how it would appear¹.

It’s just that something deep within my soul

is quite concerned with what this woman thinks.

And now I think again of ol’ King Saul

and see the havoc brought about… the jinks

it was to all his reign when he let his -

his worth be settled by the rhymes they sang

around the cooking fi-res & places

where people met and where they would just hang.

Oh God, I know the smallness of this one,

this in-div-id-u-al whose language is

agreed on by a company, whose fun 

& games & ways of doing human buis-

-ness is the context where I live this life.

I am so glad that Jesus came along

& taught me how to cross that self in strife,

the self that would just sing alone its song.

I’ll cross that self, that’s what the whole world needs,

and for your new creation to begin,

the cancer must be pulled right out, like weeds,

your life and love then covers over sin.

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¹ “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.”  (John 12:31) & “Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:18-19)  “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” (John 12:32)

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