Easter Spoken word | Authored to die

Words by Benjamin Holmes

The story of all stories
Written into nature
Obscured by the furniture
Lies a story unable to be deleted from the history books
But no villain can kill
It’s echoing still
We write our own path within the parameters, 
And we wrote in death, disease and the need for the ambulance
Placed, purposely for perfection
Mankind chose negation rather than to live as designed creation
Through disobedience and rejection, and sullen introspection
We’ve turned from light and life, 
We’ve chosen fire and strife,
No longer able to dwell with brightness
Like sheep gone astray we’ve turned from God’s way
We’ve gone off script - created our own devilish ditch

But    the Author

He wrote Himself in when He could have written off humanity 
Like a root out of dry ground, a tender shoot He grew up
One mission in His mind to save mankind 
All who are weary, abandoned, despised,
Broken, neglected, hard done by and hopeless
These are the characters Christ had in focus
All who admit to their faults and come humbly
He swoops down from heaven and aims for that one tree

Up the hill 
Too weak to carry His own cross
Too meek to ascend to heaven without gathering the lost
The carpenter’s hands outstretched to the world He once carved
His body now starved 
Disfigured and dying the Maker pinned down who had hung up the earth…now crying
We had no time and made no place but He stepped into time and space to take my place, the place that was meant to be mine to face

Broken, mangled, swollen
The ultimate image bearer beaten so badly the image just bears pain with eternal scars
But these wounds are from love, healing our wound when we fell from above 
The author of life, is now authored to die, 
He met us who failed and entered our tale - accepted the thorns and the spear and the nails
He knew how it ended yet still he expended His life like a lamb that was slain

He shouldered the pain as the Father pressed down, that crown of thorns and sin of the world crushed him as he became an offering for sin
He authored this world’s laws yet put His glory on pause 
to die for the sinners cause
The sinners who pierced Him
And then..
He ascends, his labours now finished his sacrifice crowned 
The lamb on the throne as the credits roll down
The tale untwisted, the story rewritten
The author turned Hero, to do what we didn’t
To do what we couldn’t, to undo the curse.
Those arms nailed wide span the universe

Stretching beyond all the forces that scatter, 
written in scars forever
‘You matter’

The Hero who dies and rises in glory
The author of life rewriting the story
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