“Drop Sheet”
And then the Kingdom layer dropped so slow,
At first I hardly noticed, but I know
As it became so thin and yet so tough,
It dropped and covered all the world – enough –To separate me from its grim affairs;
Quite pliable, you’d think it was not there;
It took the shape of items down below,
Like shrink-wrapped-plastic packaging we know.Still farther did that plastic layer drop,
And cover everything, and those who walk
The streets where once I lived a life sublime –
But now I see it all beneath the slime.So maybe it’s like story’s parallel;
A time-warp into heaven more than hell;
Two people in a world, a layer between
I know it’s there, but to that one unseen.So who’s restricted, who on earth is free?
In my case, I’m not there, I see it’s me –
That micro-carbon-plastic layered look
Is there between us, like a storybook.So slowly, Lord, you drop that Kingdom layer,
And let me slowly grasp each aspect there;
No wonder I had not that layer seen,
But now I sense it lies here in between –The world and Kingdom of our God and King;
We’re “in” not “of” the world, and here we sing
Your praises, freed in life of Jubilee –
With plastic layer between – in which we’re free.The layer’s on the world, it’s not on us;
Like kids beneath a blanket, there’s no fuss
Or bother once we leave that world enwrapped,
To join Thy Kingdom-life no longer trapped.What are the implications for this walk
Of freedom, in You, Christ, for thought and talk?
The same life, yet it’s different having stepped
Through “wardrobe”, “time-warp”, “parallel”, to get –Out from restrictive life that’s labeled “free”,
Yet trapped it is, huge blockages we see –
“Don’t touch; don’t speak; don’t rise above like kites,
Which catch the wind, for all submit to might –Of those who seize such power as they can find,
Suck up resources, people, cash, and kind –
Play God – disperse – so “benefactors” are –
To lord it over others near and far.But freedom in You, Lord, lets them exist,
For Kingdom-life on this side is quite fixed –
Live and let live, the layer’s not on me;
It’s on the world, on this side life is free.Thanks Lord for this.
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