THE CHRIST
I am the way to God: I did not come To light a path, to blaze a trail, that you May simply follow in my tracks, pursue My shadow like a prize thats cheaply won. My life reveals the life of God, the sum Of all he is and does. So how can you, The sons of night, look on me and construe My way as just the road for you to run? My path takes in Gethsemane, the Cross, And stark rejection draped in agony. My way to God embraces utmost loss: Your way to God is not my way, but me. Each other path is dismal swamp, or fraud. I stand alone: I am the way to God. I am the truth of God: I do not claim I merely speak the truth, as though I were A prophet (but no more), a channel, stirred By Spirit power, of purely human frame. Nor do I say that when I take his name Upon my lips, my teaching cannot err (Though that is true). A mere interpreter Im not, some prophet-voice of special fame. In timeless reaches of eternity The Triune God decided that the Word, The self-expression of the Deity, Would put on flesh and bloodand thus be heard. The claim to speak the truth good men applaud. I claim much more: I am the truth of God. I am the resurrection life. Its not As though I merely bear life-giving drink, A magic elixir which (men might think) Is cheap because though lavish its not bought. The price of life was fully paid: I fought With death and black despair; for Im the drink Of life. The resurrection morns the link Between my death and endless life long sought. I am the firstborn from the dead; and by My triumph, I deal death to lusts and hates. My life I now extend to men, and ply Them with the draught that ever satiates. Religions page with empty boasts is rife: But Im the resurrection and the life. - D. A. Carson
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