Sometimes I wonder, I know it is true.

Drawn a line in the sand, I won’t go through.

Just who I am, yet you hint, ‘There is much more than this.”

Feeling uncomfortable, but God’s blessing I don’t want to miss.

Cannot, yet you still ask, must cross my demarcation line.

A rule I have lived my life by, feeling safe, comfortable, just fine.

But you are insisting must happen, if I really want more.

I can refuse; life will go on, just as it has done before.

Think of Peter in upper room. Would like Jesus to be king.

Washing feet as servant? That is a totally different thing.

Not right, must be wrong, not happening to be honest.

Not logical, not reasonable, not what I know is best.

One day you must realise, Peter heard his Lord say,

I’m asking you  to be a servant too, to the people of your day.

Yes could be claiming what is rightfully mine.

But my love has no barrier, no demarcation line.

May go against all natural inclination of heart.

Pulls down all barriers, love will set my people apart.

Am I like Peter of old, having rules that impede?

Has he watered the garden and scattered the seed?

Is my ground parched, trodden, and full of weed?

My expectations nearly dead, withered and shrunk?

He would say, not at all, your hopes need not be sunk,

Much more is for you, just let me first wash your feet.

Then we can go forward, all your aspirations I will meet.

So much more, yet we struggle to believe can be true.

Jesus now showing that, this is not how he sees you.

As I take this to heart and see all that he says.

Others may see something in my life of his ways.

No line in the sand, to halt his work in my life.

Freedom to follow, no argument and  no strife.

Just  relax let him do the work, that is his to do.

Then see what he told us, will surely come true.

This world today would claim to have freedom.

No demarcation lines, yet in truth only for some.

History would tell us that all down the age.

God has come calling, said time to turn page.

What has become acceptable has never been true.

Drawn a line in the sand, can never cross say you.

Might upset status quo that has come into being.

Blinded to the truth, the world has stopped seeing.

All in agreement, yet the Lord he would ask?

Can I break my prejudices, am I fit for the task?

Wilberforce, Luther, Mother Teresa, and other such men.

Challenged their world to face the wickedness around them.

Is it possible, seems so unlikely, yet this story tells me.

The world does change when God’s love they do see.

An amazing destiny I now claim to be mine.

Determined to now cross, my demarcation line.

by Asaw Miller

 

 

 

 

Sometimes we wonder, all those promises of old.

The hopes, dreams, visions will happen we are told.

Even in our own heart something tells us, it could be true?

It always feels that believers are so lonely, and just so few.

Alone we seek the promises that inspire us on each day.

It seems to all the world that things never will go our way.

But then I remember the old man who waited all his life.

To see that hope promised him. Others could just see strife.

Simeon faithfully looking, everything still seemed just the same.

Every day he went  to the temple, to worship once again

Then one day this young couple, with baby, amazed was he to find.

The hope of the world was in his arms, praises just filled his mind.

That God had revealed his promise to this old man, gave hope to all.

Praise, hope, light,  glory and salvation his clarion call.

Not alone was he who had waited so patiently, and so long.

For also in the temple that day,  unnoticed in the throng.

Was Anna an old widow,who had faithfully waited for that day.

Joyfully she agreed. Mary was amazed what she did say.

So as we wait and wait for what our heart tells us must come true.

And sometimes ask ourselves is it real, will it really happen too.

Remember Simeon and Anna and for with them we now concur,

That they saw their hopes confirmed, so all satisfied as they were.

Those years of waiting patiently seemed absolutely nothing  now.

A dream fulfilled when it happens, all will have to say a mighty wow!

For God is still working with the little known and so often overlooked.

They alone have the time to seek the Lord, they are not overbooked.

So this year may seem just another year again of strife and turmoil.

Terrible news that make us mad and from this world want to recoil.

But in my heart I wait and wait for this I know my dream is true.

I will see my God at work, even in the likes of me, and in you.

Just like that day in temple court while busy people went there way.

Simeon, Anna, Mary, Joseph, amazed for baby Jesus there before them lay.

Asaw Miller