Sin Meets Soul

Stand with me now,

Here in this moment,

Pause as we consider,

The soul and sin intertwined.

If the soul, internally,

As radiant emanated light,

Inhabits the vessel,

Giving members breath and sight.

Unstained and pristine,

Molten gilded gold,

Evoking awe, and deeply moved,

Becomes stained, with veined seams?

Thinly veiled, inter-grown, thorned,

Vine of sin’s blackest black,

Mingled through flesh, the soul entwined,

Locking vessel to night’s cold death?

Now consider vessel’s Maker,

Father, Eternal, Beloved,

Compassionate Mercy His steady Hand,

Breathes the embers of soul’s light to life and fire.

No hand to clutch, root or cut,

Instead He kindles the Flame,

Forging vessels fired from within, by the Name,

Casting encroaching, entwined sin in shade,

To burning’s biting blaze,

Where darkness, utter distance, dwells,

Where love cannot abide,

Where the worm never ceases or dies.

Now consider still,

The moment we believe,

And overshadowed, fulfilled,

We ask for Holy Spirit and receive.

Sealed soul seared,

On forehead, heaven’s mark,

Temple’s burning heart –

Internally,

Eternity.