“Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people,
and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.”
Hannah Whitall Smith
(a buckeye butterfly enjoys the butterfly bush / Julie Cook / 2017)
You thought I was going to say love…didn’t you…?
As in what the world needs now is love sweet love…
But that wasn’t what I was going to say.
Peace, maybe…
that must have been it…
the world needs peace….
But I wasn’t going to say that either…
However it would have been a good second guess…
Yet both love and peace would be two nice things to have said…
As the thought of joining of hands, the locking arms with our neighbors,
as we stand in one large global circle singing kum-bi-ya….
However the world needs more than just love and more than just peace.
Believe it or not,
it needs something much greater….
For both love and peace, be they each a most noble and grand need,
can be both fickled and fleeting.
For given what we know about man and how he, she, we, operate…
both peace and love soon give way to the darker sides of all things opposite…
to the opposite yang to man’s often positive ying.
What the world needs is a Savior.
Yes, you read correctly,
a Savior…
Not a hero, not a great leader, not something fleeting or shallow or even empty…
As every atheist, agnostic and every other religion that disavows Jesus of Nazareth as
anything other than either a fable or some benign profit,
just uttered a collective groan…
However we must note that there has yet to anything or anyone who has ever made the
same difference or impact in the lives of any man as the difference made by living
a life in Christ…
A real, self surrendering life…
And if you have yet to try such…
you can argue against such all day long…that is until you try doing it…
For this is not the life of the in name only lip service or of a life lived filled with
the mere fluff and stuff of overt materialism, or the angst of protest and militantism,
or the emptiness of worldly dissatisfaction…
but this is a life lived totally sacrificed of ego and self…
It seems too easy to call you “Savior”,
Not close enough to call you “God”
So as I sit and think of words I can mention
to show my devotion
“I want to fall in love with You”
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