Seed of The
Father,
Root out of dry
ground.
Seeds in fruit, scatter!
Roots in new
lives found.
God so loved the world, He sent Jesus - Jew,
To live and die
as our sin sacrifice.
Jesus so loved
the world, He sent them YoU,
To let them
know for sin, He’s paid the price.
God’s Christ,
raised to new life after He died,
In His
righteousness, I’m now justified.
My life, now
holy, being sanctified. 1
In all my life,
God is now glorified.
New life! A
Word-fueled imagination!
Baptized into a
brand new family!
A brand new
purpose and worldwide mission!
My former god
is now my enemy!
Israel fought
as Moses lifted his hand
Thus they put
their enemy to flight. 2
Angels now
fight as on God’s Word I stand.
I
stand! Devils flee! No match for the fight!
God's Word, Christian, what to you does it mean?
Christ
disciple, follower, fisher-of-men?
Jesus admirer,
religious routine?
Ambassador of
Heaven, a born-again?
As I grow, it
more clearly dawns on me:
The word, Christian, may really
miss the boat,
Compared to
what in God’s Mind He may see.
Take a peek.
See the meaning I uncloak.
We interpret
Christian as a follower of Christ.
Yet the suffix, -ian, means a variant or version of.
Of Heaven’s
intention, has there perhaps been a heist?!
Christian,
a version of Christ.
What if that’s God’s
view from above?
‘So
what?’, you may wonder.
‘Why by this are you so awed?!’
We know christ is
more a title than someone’s name. 3
Christ, The Son
of God, died to create christs, sons of God.
As Christ is
one with God, with Him we are the same. 4
We’re ‘Christ-versions’ who
are being perfected.
Like Him, we’re
also anointed and appointed.
With Him -
Spirit, Soul and Body connected,
So in our
lives, He will not be disappointed.
Like Him, we’re
dispatched into this sinful world,
Dispatched to
die to our selfish, carnal ways,
His Gospel
Truth to live out, and to unfurl,
As through us,
to this world His Light He displays.
Friend,
Ponder, then
join me in this confession:
‘Jesus so loved
the world, He sent them me! 5
His Spirit,
Mind-in-Word to me given.
In His
Body, christ-i-am, mystically!’ 6
God so loved the world, He sent Jesus - Jew.
Jesus so loved
the world, He sent them YoU!
What’s your life preaching to those you’re sent to?
As you preach, may it be Him they pursue!
christ-i-am. Version of Christ we are.
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1 Holy means separated for
God’s use, not perfected.
2 See: Exodus
17:11-13
3 Christ means the anointed
and appointed one.
4 See: 1 Corinthians
6:17. ‘...As He [Christ] is, so are we in the world.’ (1 John 4:17)
5 That is, YoU!
6 Mysteriously. This is one
part of ‘the mystery’ that Apostle Paul mentions iteratively in his New
Testament writings, e.g., the mystery of God, of Christ, of The Church, of The
Gospel, of the [Christian] faith, etc. Accordingly, we who are born again in
Christ carry these mysteries, i.e., ‘the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ, as heavenly treasure, hidden in earthly
vessels. (2 Corinthians 4:6-7)
