Reborn

2 Corinthians tells us that when we are saved we become a new creation. This is entirely true and I feel that this is a proper notion on which to transfer from facebook notes to this new blog. I am a new creation, made and blessed by God, no longer what I was but moving ever forth to that which I shall become.

I stand unfettered, my sin behind me lain
Victory through all encompassing love
Through effortless surrender I have gained

My past is naught but thought stored in remote faculty
And some now distant, though still bitter, regret
My life renewed and better yet, reborn in glorious fraternity

Brotherhood binds my heart and soul, stirring newly found emotion
Brother, sister, father, mother, unity in family
No longer sought but now found, fact and no longer hopeful notion

Life restored to this deathly husk of flesh
Hope restored and with the father lies
Soul and spirit, so long separate, once again enmesh

Hung on ancient, twisted tree I died to sin
Died and yet I live and breath
For I am not myself, but he who lives within

So evermore to such eternal hope I turn
And in this life to his good will I yield
So that I may hear well done when this life I do adjourn