Admit: Word Ambassadors: Prayers and Poetry

            Admit

            Man’s methods use

            sabotage, lies, murder

            to erase competition

            distance ourselves from

penalities. Hide behind

alibis.

God’s way enters

sin’s territory

tears façade open to

die innocent, blameless

purges death’s grip

Altogether.

Power: Word Ambassadors: Prayers and Poetry

Reading: Acts 2:23-24

“this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law. But God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.”

Handed over to you, Peter says.  He goes beyond heritage now and includes the entire crowd. Making Jesus’ actions personal, individual, powerful.

Making the choices each listener now makes individual.

No excuse for confusion or misunderstandings. No hiding behind ignorance or peer pressure. No hiding behind our own sins.

God has upended man’s concept of power and sovereignty. He has replaced political and geographic and religious facades with a staggering fact. Jesus conquered death.

As a victim.  And as Creator. Giving new life each day.

Splitting wide open death’s consequence. Shattering sin’s regime.

Who will listen?

Psalm of Worship: Genesis 1:23

“And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.”