Spoken Word: The Case for Christ

Our Father in Heaven

Our Lord, Our Master

Our Healer, Our king

Our Deliverer

Our Brother

Hallowed be thine Name 🙌

He who bore our sins and our inquities

In shame, in pain

In the anger of many, and yet remained...

Silent.

Our Teacher, Our Counsellor

Our Comforter

Thank you for revealing us His truth

Although He carried upon Himself, our many sorrows

Cried out to Heaven in deep anguish

In silence, but visible through His blood, sweat and tears

You were there.

But you allowed it all to happen

So that the ancient records; probably torn, lost or even forgotten by now...

Will be accomplished

Images of His sufferings, flesh-stripping lashes and mockings

Play in my mind,

The vivid but clear shaky images of an old film strip 🎞

So that the words on this gadget I hold in my hand

Might bear witness

To this case -

The case for Christ

The glorified prophet

Though always mopped by crowds of crowds

Now stands alone, 

In front of him, an unbeliever.

Behind him,

His worse critics; self-pleasers - the holier than thou

In there somewhere, stands Peter, a changed man

Who can’t bring himself to utter that he knows Him

Pilate asks the same question

And you answer - “Thy kingdom comes, Your Will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven”

As you look upwards to Heaven

Feeling exceeding uncomfortable,

Nails plunged in the palms of your hands and in your feet

While I sit here, well postured in my room

Praying, “Give me this day, my daily bread

And forgive me for I have not held a grudge against my enemies”

Meanwhile far away in the place of skulls

Your enemies slap you, spit at you,

Call you all sorts of names

Prick your head with the crown of horns

You refuse to scream out “Father! Deliver me from the Evil one! ... Please!”

Although weakened in your flesh; as human as you are

You finally completed the Task He gave to You.

Suddenly you scream “It is Finished!”

Your witnesses gasp and step forward... ready to rejoice (although defeated)

It’s the end of your torture.

Just to put a stamp on it

They pierce you with a spear.

With the water and blood poured out from your side,

We have answers when we ask for Healing, Protection, Forgiveness and Freedom.

Exactly what I asked for today.

In unisome with you Jesus, the Resurrected One, as You appear next to me while I pray

We end together

“For Thine is the Kingdom, The Power and The Glory, Amen.”

This is the case of Jesus the Christ

Whose enemies are condemned to eternal sorrows, never to rejoice again.