Deeper magic from before the dawn of time

High School. Your teenage years.
Everyone always told us to enjoy it.
It would be the best time of our lives!
What kind of life did they live?
Look around.
Everyone's lying.
Girls want love.
Guys want sex.
Everyone seeks something.
So we turn to a drink.
Or a smoke.
Or a cut.
Who would have imagined this is where we'd end up.

Oh, Lord. Where are you?
What have we done with our Savior?
Where is the one who can redeem us from these lives marred by sin?
The answer?
We've betrayed Him.
We've bound Him.
We've beaten Him.
Bloodied Him.
Spat on Him.
Denied Him.
Ridiculed Him.
We have Crucified Him.
Put Him in a cave,
And sealed the entrance.
We have made his circumstances our own.
Bare
Dark.
Cold.
Alone.
Dead.

He has risen.
Risen from the dark.
Risen from the lies.
from the hate.
from the grief.
from death.
He has risen from Hell.

And his love for us is everlasting.

He will comfort us as a mother comforts her child.

He is our Shepard, and he will not abandon even one.
He has paid the ultimate price for our treachery.
His beloved creation has been reclaimed from Death.
His children need to reach out their hands.
We are not alone.
We are loved.
We are saved.


I choose to accept, seek, and live for Christ.