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