Forgiveness.

Forgiveness- the hardest task
what bitterness behind this mask
holding onto poisoned thoughts
my heart bound by barbed-wire knots

We always assume that we are above someone
when we give grace, forgiveness allot
but letting go never means deciding to be the better man
because, put quite simply- you’re certainly not.

Humble yourself, examine yourself
inconvenience yourself, see yourself
see the same dirt and blood on your own hands and face
and accept that you are under the same sovereign grace.

You will never experience freedom and healing
if you are above the washing; the kneeling.
It is never comfortable; such radical compassion-
it’s a painful, humiliating, deliberate action.

But when you do break free, when you do kneel,
you are helping yourself as you wash and you heal.
When you break free from your pride, the lie
the poison leaks in the blink of an eye.

The grace is spread, Christ’s majesty revealed
your wounds can’t compare to his
and thus you are healed.