Tag: Jesus
Nothing and Everything
The world is enraptured by an eery turbulence.
The kind that makes me want to step out of my skin and watch my flesh, blood and bones wriggle on the floor, half dead. She rides me like a wild horse and I am more than receiving of her deathly blows.She hates me, because You Love Me.
You, The Universe of the Universe. I am willing to die a thousand times to get away from her, she knows this, she is furious, because there has been no guilt in years, only this freedom that comes from swift forgetfulness. This silence that comes from immense helplessness.
But often now I ask, What must I do to be saved daily? Nothing He says, “Nothing and everything”, He smiles at me His smile is fire, I melt. The place of surrender I do not quickly recognize till I have rebelled.
What would it take for you to open my eyes and keep them there? “Nothing and everything, sweetheart just STAY”… Let me never leave this place of sanity I beg. This battle its for True Life, I’m unashamed.
For me to rise again and again, the ultimate plan, the reason you came.
” just part of it my Bride, for this cause and much more I came, my honor on the line, an eternal law I had to obey, That being connected to you only in death could I LIVE and now you must do the same”…
Cold Love brought shivers down my spine, like breath forming misty smoke In the Presence of His divine…
” You staked it all when you chose to redeem, it was Life or death, you chose to Live”
Life has never been easier ever since, knowing fully well that the life I live now is His..
I saw in His eyes the Love of Loves, a burning wrath completely satisfied.
“Don’t you get it My Bride, I’ve seen it all, I know how it ends, before you had the choice, I chose to Live… I’d never leave my own, my depth in you calls me deeper, an eternal bond, a pull I can’t refuse, wait for me, I come quickly, I desire to be united with me, more than you think, Wait For Me…”
- Osione Abokhai
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Saved.
“I can’t remember if I seduced him or if he came calling for me.”
All I remember was the loud stumps of angry feet drawing closer and closer. Huge arms whisked me away from him and led me to the slaughter ground. My partner wasn’t with me. I don’t know why… but they let him go.
Fear gripped me.
My stomach rumbled.
My feet quaked.
So this is it for me? A painful death by stoning. I could imagine the heavy bricks landing on my soft skull. I knew the penalty of adultery, but I did it anyway. The fear of punishment didn’t stop my desires. Why is sin so strong even with the law?
As I kept thinking, they dragged me into the temple and brought me to the teacher. He was called ‘Rabbi.’
“We caught this woman in adultery”, they said. “And according to Moses’ law,” they continued. “We must stone her to death. So what do you say?”
He didn’t reply them. He stooped low and wrote in the dust. My heart almost stopped. It seemed like my life was in his hands.
His reply would save me from death…
His reply would save me from condemnation..
His reply would give me a second chance.
“My Lord, please say something!” my eyes screamed
Just then, he looked up and said “All right! But let he who has no sin be the first to cast the stone.”And he continued writing on the dust.
Silence.
The murmurings gave way…
and one by one… each of them went their ways. Leaving me alone in dismay.
I was dumbfounded! So, we all have sinned? I thought it was just me.
He looked at me and said; “Where are your accusers? No one condemns you?”
“No one Lord.” I replied.
“Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” He said.
And I never left his side since that day.
- Ebisike Amarachi
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#rhematown iss. 197
Crossed Roads
So, here I am, stuck on the cross
Paying the ultimate price for my wrong
Feeling my life seep slowly out of me
Looking down at my accusers, scorning me and my colleagues.
Well…
Colleague and one other man
Of whom I know so little about
Of all the things I’ve heard,
It’s that he doesn’t deserve to be up here
Well, my colleague thinks otherwise
Since he’s been taunting and mocking him,
“If you really are the Christ, then save us!” he says
“how can you say such, seeing we deserve to be here?” I answered.
However when I look at him
I felt an indescribable thing
So different from what I’ve felt since I made my first kill
I knew, I just knew he was going somewhere
Somewhere good.
So maybe, just maybe, I could go with him
So, I throw in me last bargaining chip
“Lord, remember me when you come into your paradise”
Then he turned his eyes to me.
And I wondered, “how could someone in such amount of pain,
Much greater than the one I’m feeling, have such compassion?”
He says, ” I assure you, today, you well be with me in paradise”
Then peace flooded my heart
I knew that for once in my wretched life
I’d finally done the right thing.
- Emenike Chinwendu (2017)
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#rhematown iss. 192
Jesus be REAL!
Pour me a drink He said.
I ain’t got time for y’all Jews she said.
Oops if I were you I’d be asking me for a drink He said.
Now there you go thinking you’re better off than our fathers she said.
Well I got water that will give them water-well companies a run for their money He said.
Oh really? She exclaimed Well can I get some? She asked.
Go call your boo He said.
What you all up in my business for? I ain’t got none She said.
You are correct cos you’ve had 5 and the one you’re with ain’t yours He said calmly.
What the? You must be prophet! Can I holla at you for a Moment? We have church at the mountain cathedral but y’all Jews and the like say we all have to get to Jerusalem before we can have church. What’s up with that? She asked.
I’m gonna be real with you, God is done with all them physical locations. These days, any man that wants to worship can do so wherever he is in spirit and in truth. and that’s what’s up. He said
- Ezeonyeka Godswill (2017)
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#rhematown iss. 158
Christ a poet 