Today is Thankful Thursday here at my blog. This theme day started with acrostic poems of various synonyms of the word “thankful.” But God has led me to morph this theme into something much broader than my original idea.
This week as I thought about what I am thankful for, I realized one of the things I am most thankful for is that God has forgiven all my sins through the blood of Christ shed on the cross. When I contemplate all that I have done in my life, I am astonished that God would forgive all. This poem was inspired by those thoughts and by the song “Forgiven” by Skillet that came on my iPod the other day as I got ready for work.
Erased
Like dark marks
My sins, my transgressions
Stained my past
Clouded my thinking
Held me captive
Lost in the dark
Though I knew You
My sins, my transgressions
Kept me far
From Your love
Separated and lost
Guilt was all I knew
Then You drew
Near to me
Took my transgressions
Upon Yourself
You erased every sin
All that remained was You
Each dark mark
Erased completely
Each sin blotted out
By Your precious blood
Remembered by You no more
Light supplanted the dark
Epilogue:
The evil one, the accuser
Reminds me of my sin
Tries to bring me down
Convince me it’s untrue
But I know
You have promised
Every sin, every transgression
Is erased by Your love
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Psalm 51:8-10 (NIV).