My Lord
has knelt me down
has bent my back to the point where it broke
and He healed me and showed me I am nothing
Lord who takes the lives of princes
knew that I had thought I was much
and mighty, and He made me fall, He took
my muscled arms and pulled the muscle out
He said, this is how much you are,
this is how much you are without me
and this is how much I am
and I have never understood why we should
fear a God that is all powerful and all loving
because why fear something that is always on your side?
why must we fear a God such as this,
who always works on our behalf?
I understand now.
we must fear because He is so great
and so wild
and so ever-driving forward and we think
He will make it all turn out well, and He will,
but we don't see that it is well,
we are as ants in a flood who cannot see forward
or back, good or evil, we understand death
and the tide brings it, so we must be afraid
for we are so much smaller and so much more ignorant
than we had believed- the world is not for our
immediate happiness, it is for the perfection of heaven
the world begins and ends around us and His hand
works the masses of nature and we are nothing, we
are nothing, and truth must be faced and to
be brave in the face of that truth is to be foolish,
so it is good to be afraid.