The throne

Revelation 3:21

To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

When we think of God above on his throne 

It’s easy to think about us down here below

And the space between that keeps us apart

But that is a wrong place for your thoughts to start

So, let’s unpack this one thought in rhyme

So that we may better understand it in time.

Our union with God was meant to be

As in the garden till split by the tree

They had much in common as you already know

As they walked through the garden in love, to and fro

Man in God’s image and His Likeness was

Completed in Eve as they shared this love

They shared in his image and His likeness too

Just as the prophets as me and as you

And this was the challenge that we are rent by our choice

That caused us to depart from hearing God’s voice

For when we pursue the things that are outside of his hands

It leads us away in to foreign lands

As in those times, we cannot return

The way that we came, from what we have learned. 

And far from man's mind were thought of God's throne

How we'd return and be again home.

But this is not a journey that man can complete

Without God descending for man to him meet

And this is not something that God can restore

Unless man hears him as he did before

And this is not something could be done by any

But needed one person to take the lead for the many

And this one person needed to be mother of all

To accept the way back after the fall

In hearing the angel, she meekly obliged

To know God in a way so we can in kind

She made a way for God to be known

In accepting him, becoming His throne

What does this mean if ever you knew?

That God desires the same for you

For Theotokos was God's bearer and mother

Enabling us to change from one thing to another

From bearing a shame that made us want to hide

To bearing his name with a new life

We are Theophorous as we bear him too

And bearing him means sharing him too

We are to carry him where ever we go

Until the day that when we return home. 

When we return as victor and heirs

Overcoming the world and all of it’s cares

And this return to how we should be

Is walking with Christ who hung on the tree

Who knocks loudly with the sounds of each nail

To wake us from sleep whenever we fail

Who calls us by name that we may come

And attend the banquet of the Risen Son

Whose victory over death did become ours

So, we may too rely on God's power

And all of this so we may return home

And be seated with him upon his throne. 

For this is the promise to hearers of his

that upon their victory they be granted this

To sit in heaven with God on his throne

As he sat with you, when you felt alone. 

So now you can see through being his throne

That you carry him where ever you roam. 

And now in this season where God became man

We see laid out his divine plan

The Lord God who was seated above

Came down from heaven because of his love

Yeah, The Lord God of heaven arose from his throne

And came down to earth that he may bring us home.

In his image

We are all in his image,
What a wondrous thing
That we have this in common
With the King of kings. 

Am I really in the image
Of God on His throne,
The Creator of all things
Seen and unknown?

And who can imagine?
The reaction of those there
Who saw the Lord of lords
Ascend through the air? 

Can I be in His image
This Lord of all might
Who overcame gravity
And ascended in plain sight? 

And I think of the Lord
Who ate and lived among men
After the resurrection
That they might know Him again

For this Lord of all might
Escaped from the tomb
For all those in death
So Life may resume. 

And He was laid still

While wrapped in fine linen

As He carried the burden of all sin

From the beginning

The burden of the sins

Of all mankind

He took upon Him, 

As He hung in the sky.  

And all those who saw Him 

As He hung in that state 

Were troubled within

As they thought of His fate

They couldn't understand

What put the Lord there

And how He went willingly 

While they called out in prayer

Jesus why must you suffer

This way on the tree

And bear this great burden

For someone like me

And done so willingly 

And done by His choice

Without defending himself 

As one without voice

He did not correct Pilate 

Or the many before him 

To whom this cross wasn't clear

Despite His forewarning

For this was His mission
The He might find a way
To remit all of our sins
On this single day

And this was His teaching
To all women and men
To do all things in Love
But we couldn't comprehend

They saw miracles and signs
As we do in our lives
And we thank Him for gifts
But dont seem to realize

The mission of the cross
Was a mission of Love
For all to see and join in
With the Lord God above

For when He raised Lazarus
And the many before
And when He commanded the sea
In the midst of the storm

And when He fed the people
Who heard the voice of the Lord
And the deaf, blind and lame
Whose bodies restored

And all those who were ill
And the many he healed
And in the demon possessed
One thing was revealed

This was His love
For all of mankind
A love so immense
He joined it in time

And this is the moment
That His love was shown
For in becoming man
God became known

So this is a wonder
In this Image now seen
That we have a model
Of how we might be

The Lord of Creation
Became man Himself
That we in return
Might become something else

The Holy of Holies
Was born in the night
In the dark in a manger
That we might see His light 

The Light of the World
That conquered the night
Came forth from the Virgin
In the shepherds sight

And in her arms she held Him
Who made all in the world known
And despite His might
His Love only shown.

The Love of God
As sent down to all man
That we might know Him
As our Father again

This Love from on High
A model for all
That we might love others
The great and small

For this is how He
Said we'd be known
When our love to one another
Is outwardly shown

I call you to awaken
His image within you
And love your neighbor
As we were commanded to

And love the Lord
Lord of Heaven and earth
For this God of Love
Showed us love in His birth

Yes, Love the Lord
For He loved us first
And dwell in His love
Be in it immersed

We are all in His image,
What a wondrous thing
That we have this in common
With the King of kings.

(c) Justin Gerges 2019