A DIFFERENT SPIRIT

There is a different spirit moving across our land.
It's a spirit of comparison and strife and envy...

...and violence.

A spirit that exalts the created rather than the Creator.

A spirit of corruption in high places.

A spirit of power that is rottenness toward the young.

Unspeakable rottenness.

And harmful toward the most innocent.

Light of the World, we beg You to shine in these dark places.  How we need your goodness.  

Spirit, make us protectors of the weak...

God lovers...

responsive to authority...

and mindful of our divinely-assigned purposes.

Father, we so look forward to the day 

when motives will be PURE.

The lion and lamb will both have new natures

 and our nature-of-grace won't have to contend.

Lord, we just want you to know 

that we won't miss that urge to be powerful.

Or rich.

Or...first.

The new Jerusalem will dazzle the eyegate 

with all those fiery jewels and colors.

But the absence of rottenness 

may be the most dazzling perk of all.

Maranatha, Lord!