Sons and
Daughters of Time
He was the
first. The original son. Created good. Created free.
He was given
life, a garden, a beautiful companion, a soul and a terrible choice.
He fell.
With him,
into the chains of death we became bound.
Now sons and
daughters of Adam. Sons and daughters of
time.
From
generation to generation, the bitter robe of mortality in which to be clothed.
We fell.
Time passed.
Creation groaned. Sorrow filled the earth.
Sons and daughters
of time tethered in the bondage of sin’s depravity, decay, and death.
The curse of
a fate to love that which is destined to die.
The sorrow
of loss as inevitable as the setting sun.
Yet even
death was unable to destroy one item more powerful….hope.
We looked
ahead and groaned in eager expectation…
The chorus
of all Creation led by the Sons and Daughters of time…
Lifting
voices of “How long Oh, Lord? How long?”
The pendulum
swung and the moment finally arrived.
The Second
Adam came.
This time
Divine of Divine
God of God
The Eternal
One clothed in the flesh of time and mortality
The Timeless
one given just a few years
Destined to
die.
Creation
watched.
Like a
breath taken in sharply, waiting to exhale
Is He the
One?
Time bent to
Him, Creation obeyed his voice
Demons fled.
The earth shook. Death itself shivered.
The Cross.
The Sons and
Daughters of time joining together to take away life from the One who gave it…
The Father
turned his face, his earthy mother watching…wept.
The sword that
was to pierce her heart, found its mark.
“Forgive
them!” The God-man cried.
Even from
the Cross he saved…
Then the
Second Adam died.
Tombs were
opened, the dead even walked
The sacred
temple curtain torn apart.
Death
quaked. Death’s time was coming.
The pendulum
swung again.
Three days
later death’s turn came, his time no more.
The serpent’s
head was crushed and Eve remembered her Father’s words….
That which
is dead, is now made alive in Him…the Second Adam…
Death has
been dethroned, the crown snatched and given to his Nemesis named Life.
From chains
of sin, set free…
The blind
will see,
The dead
will rise…
Sons and
Daughters of time no more…
Now Children
of Eternity.
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