a ghost story
Sam Bowman
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I'd like to tell you a story The story's old and it's new It's about ghosts and ghouls Desperation and doom And darkening gloom And conquering good And redemption that's sure It's about me and it's about you Most importantly it's about a Savior who makes broken things new And I'll tell you a secret- this story is true So find a place to get comfortable and I'll share it with you This story started in a garden that was haunted by grace Lovingly formed by the Ancient of Days From eon to eon it exalted the Sovereign Who reigned as benevolent ruler and Author The rocks would exclaim the willows cry out The stars would proclaim and the mountains would shout And by the coast you could hear oceans roaring That Yahweh is worthy of honor and glory But do you want to know the best part It wasn't the rocks or the trees Or the stars or the seas It was His magnum opus- His image bearers God bent down to the earth and created His bride From dust from the ground and a bone from man's side Arose Adam and Eve as they walked with God Himself- what a shock Here was the Sovereign of all as the Imminent One He was Yahweh Shammah and at once El Elyon Eternally peerless forever transcendent But our first parents could stand in God's presence Haunted by holiness haunted by grace As they walked in the garden in the light of God's face And everything was good. Very good in fact Until one day the couple received a visitor An apparition if you will fallen from Heaven itself The wraith of all wraiths slithered up to the woman And convinced her that ultimately she was missing something And with the bite of an apple she and the man Rejected communion and rejected God's plan And that's when the ghosts arrived brazen and bold Spawn of their father that serpent of old Sired and raised by the lies that he told And our first parents took the bait that day It was insidious sin that killed them within Scoffing at truth that was given to them And believing the lie that deceives you and I "Forget God and the garden His presence and light Because I like it better when I do what I want When I leave God behind to follow my own heart Who cares if my real god's my belly? And who cares If I chase after suitors that wither away And these ghosts? They have a point when they surface and say Who said you need dead words to show you the way Come follow your heart. Trust in your feelings Comfort on earth is your best hope of healing Why look for a truth when there's no truth to find Why live as a pilgrim you've got all the time In the world to be healthy and happy and wise Said the ghosts said the whispers in the corners of their minds I'm the narrator for crying out loud even I Have been guilty of exchanging God's truth for a lie I've clung to the ghosts to show me the way When it comes to the things that I love or I hate or How I can be popular powerful wise How I can be charming in blind beggars' eyes And not just the ghosts but my own desires Are how I can be duped into believing these liars In my flesh in the depths of my soul I'm opposed To the Spirit and everything precious He holds And what a horror- now I need them. I want them to speak The clamor inside gives me sickening peace The louder they get the more I'm distracted From the loss from the suffering I try to push back To the edge of my mind- anything to escape A heartfelt encounter of conviction or grace I'd rather anesthetize sanctified fear And fall asleep to the voices that scream in my ear And the ghosts would continue accosting God's children As our thoughts underneath turned depravedly wicked The Law would cry out and the prophets would plead But we stiffened our necks and refused to concede So a cadaverous pallor hung over our hearts As our minds went insane and our eyes became dark And God brokenhearted by His adulterous bride Loved her enough to fulfill her desires By giving us manna we ate till we died By giving us passions we relished in pride By giving us over to debasement of mind Never tempting ever patient ever loving and kind He was slow to His anger but not compromising He'd provided His mercy but His people had tried it Haunted by holiness haunted by grace God had no choice but to pour out His rage On rebellious men who had shaken their fist At the Lord of the galaxies because they knew best On self-righteous people- more like self-righteous specks Compared to the righteousness God represents Do you hear it? That's the trumpet and it's screaming like a banshee As all heaven's armies stand firm at the ready Call to the mountains call to the cliffs Before holy justice plummets onto your sin But heaven is silent. Because from the very beginning none of this was a surprise to God He knew of the ghosts. He knew of the lies He knew of the sin that would kill us inside So from Adam to Noah From Abraham to Moses From David to Joseph He had laid a plan How would He expel the lies? The truth But we call the truth another name We call Him Jesus The Son of Man the Word become flesh Came to live among those doomed by death He claimed to be a temple and heavenly food Saying I am the way and the life and the Truth Now this sort of talk doesn't make friends with ghosts They only hated His people because they hated Him most They writhed in dismay when after forty days of hunger He artfully thwarted the wiles of their master So they flew to the ears of the pompous and proud And the ears of the treasonous troubled by doubt Thirty pieces of silver was a high enough offer For men seeking truth to condemn truth's own Author So it was that on a cross straining to breathe Hung the bloodstained Hero that you and I need Haunted by holiness haunted by grace Christ gave His life while God averted His gaze The ghosts cackled with glee. They had heard it was done But what "It is finished" meant was not that they had won No. In giving His life Christ gave us ours And as He rose three days later He also gave us power In His triumph over death temptation and sin He gave His children the strength to resist the ghosts within He restored us to God and atoned for our souls He sent us the Holy Ghost that convicts and consoles I know times will be hard. There'll be days I fall short I may lose battles but Christ won the war I have more to rely on than positive thinking because His sure will and true Word is enough to cling to And that isn't all- cause Christ's coming again To renew what is broken by deception and sin The ghosts will dissolve along with their lies As the Faithful and True King of Kings claims His bride This story ends in a garden that's haunted by grace As God's people rejoice in the light of His face They're free from the ghosts and forgiven of sin Forever and always amen and amen The end. That's the story. Thanks for your time I hope that in light of all these things you see why I was burdened to tell you so much about our minds Because I believe Scripture's true. Forget all the lies That approach you so meekly like sheep in disguise My heart is rekindled now my mind is restored My life is a Holy Ghost story now. And in Christ so is yours The war has been won but the battle remains We live in a world full of chaos and pain But how will we find the courage to fight Well that my friend is a story for another time
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