I firmly believe
Jesus Christ
I confess
your Lordship
And it does not scare me
The way power does
in the hands of lets say
some humans
Because I have seen
You
healer Christ
teacher Christ
companion Christ
I have seen you
sitting at the well
hanging out with the outcasts
talking to the tax collectors
the nuerodivergent
the disabled
the poor, ethnically, religiously, differently gendered
You see them, talk to them and call them by name
I know what the authorities called you
dangerous
rabble rouser
Trouble
I know that you you don’t care about
money
status
and power
And on your last day on earth
You ate some good food
With friends
you took some time to pray
and asked your friends to sit with you
And you made a point
to get on your knees
and wash their feet
People picture your return
in glory–and that tongues
will confess Jesus as Lord
As some kind of military thing
(Again)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
It is clear that we have learned nothing
Since you hung bow, your weapon, your Rainbow
up permanently in the sky
That many-a-thousand-years ago
But I know your secret
When you return–every knee will bow
…because you will return as you came
stooping down to see heaven and earth
Kneeling to serve
And we are Allllll
all of us
gonna kneel….to get next to you
Every knee will bow indeed
We will knee next to our Savior
and confess….Lord
I want to do what you are doing
I want to serve the people you are serving
It will be Maundy Thursday Incarnate
Communion
filling our tongues
with Love
and the Servant Lordship of Jesus Christ
Confession–all of it the same
I cannot wait to kneel beside you
and confess
Jesus Christ is Lord
Amen, Amen
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