Bonus poem! This was originally sparked by a study in Ephesians 2:1-10, specifically the phrase “God, who is rich in mercy” in verse 4, which when I started writing led to some thinking of the different kinds of riches and their challenges and how they might interplay. The title is a play between Matthew 28 and the statement in verse 10 that God’s people are God’s masterpiece. Blessings!
(As always, feel free to skip ahead to the poem if you don’t want commentary/preamble. Many of you are quite sleuthy when it comes to understanding poems–I marvel at you, and salute you, as I need ALL the help I can get when others share their poetry with me.)
I think God deliberately designed biological life to show us/help us understand what true (expressed in the New Testament by the Greek word zoe) life is. I also think that biological development functions in much the same way–the maturation process of birth through infancy/early childhood/adolescence/adulthood giving us clues for how we become mature in Christ.
One thing that complicates this is that we often become (or at least functionally are, how many years has God’s life within you been genuinely/intentionally growing?) spiritual babies when we are biological adults, which creates some significant challenges that would just be, well, super odd in biological development.
This poem’s about that–how hard it can be for us to submit to (let alone revel in, embracing every present moment as a holy moment) the day-by-day process of sanctification… so this poem is about that.
The last two lines are a reference to Genesis 3; the nature of the forbidden tree in Eden is not incidental or unimportant.
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