Will you stand up,
Stand up for Jesus?
Will you do as Peter did,
And standing up,
And drawing a hasty sword,
Slice off the ear from the soldier’s head?
The soldier—merely one,
As He was under authority,
Was following orders
From a greater one than he.
Or can you, as part of the living body,
Become a part of the very hand—
A manifestation of a true healing touch,
Creatively restoring the visions blurred?
Can you go to your cross
Like a sheep to the slaughter,
Silent, not sayin’ a mumbalin’ word?
Those who live by the bloody sword
Surely will be those who die
By the exacting, selfsame sword of unmercy,
Still condemning the very sky
When it won’t produce what they think it should,
When it’s we who don’t understand,
That the kingdom of god is not without,
But within, and very close at hand.
-jenn long
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