Scandalous Graceful Messiah
Throughout the centuries
promises were prophesied
about a Saviour, Messiah
He will redeem His people
our sins forgiven, washed clean
A sinless perfect Saviour
we imagine his family
to be sinless and perfect too
How scandalous and shocking to find then
the social outcast, pagans, gentiles,
tainted sinners, prostitutes and murderers.
How did God allow these people
to be in the royal family line?
And yet these chosen sinners
did not in any way
taint the perfect sinless Saviour
It only points to more of His grace
and how now centuries later
He is still in the business of
adding to His family line
the social outcasts, pagans, gentiles,
and all kinds of tainted sinners
In His family line we are all
washed clean and pure
How scandalous, we think,
as only perfect people go to heaven
(in our tainted mindset)
Reality being there is only ONE perfect person
and He died to cleanse us, and make us into His perfection.
Grace
Riana Odendaal
December 2014
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