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Date Posted: 22:21:27 12/06/04 Mon
Author: Unknown
Subject: What way

I am the way truth and life

I am the way to God: I did not come

To light a path, to blaze a trail, that you

May simply follow in my tracks, pursue

My shadow like a prize that's cheaply won.

My life reveals the life of God, the sum

Of all he is and does. So how can you,

The sons of night, look on me and construe

My way as just the road for you to run?

My path takes in Gethsemane, the Cross,

And stark rejection draped in agony.

My way to God embraces utmost loss:

Your way to God is not my way, but me.

Each other path is dismal swamp, or fraud.

I stand alone: I am the way to God.

I am the truth of God: I do not claim

I merely speak the truth, as though I were

A prophet (but no more), a channel, stirred

By Spirit power, of purely human frame.

Nor do I say that when I take his Name

Upon my lips, my teaching cannot err

(Though that is true). A mere interpreter

I'm not, some prophet-voice of special frame.

In timeless reaches of eternity

The self-expression of the Deity,

Would put in flesh and blood - and thus be heard.

The claim to speak the truth good men applaud.

I claim much more: I am the truth of God

I am the resurrection life. It's not

As though I merely bear life-giving drink,

A magic elixr when (men might think)

Is cheap because though lavish it's not bought.

The price of life was fully paid: I fought

With death and black despair; for I'm not drink

Of life. The resurrection morn's the link

Between my death and endless life long sought.

I am the first born from the dead; and by

My triumph, I deal death to lusts and hates.

My life I now extend to men, and ply

Them with the draught that ever satiates.

Religion's page with empty boasts is rife:

But I'm the resurrection and the life.

Author Unknown

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