Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Good News (Prison to Praise)

The Good News of the Gospel
Is not that We are Saved
From Our Surroundings
When We Receive Christ...

For then we would no longer be in this world.

The Good News of the Gospel
Is that we deserve death
For our failure to
Acknowledge the
Most High God

But God, in His Infinite Mercy,
Provided Not only a way of escape,
But Sacrificed His most dearest,
Most precious,
One and Only Son

It is this marvelous, wonderful
GIFT
In which we can continually rejoice
No matter what our surroundings
Or circumstances would have us to feel

It is this
GIFT
That deserves our highest praise
And loudest rejoicing
Even while the prison doors
Would seem to still be intact
Around us

(And the walls came tumbling down...)