ANTHROPOMORPHISM

 Anthropomorphism scientists say,

Is looking at God in a man kind of way.

We know He’s alive in a spiritual plane;

We know that our efforts to see Him are vain.

We know He is greater than all that we see,

So what do we say to describe Deity?

We really can’t do it. It’s hard to conceive,

Of our great Creator in ways we’ll believe.

And so we speak of Him as though He’s a man,

Until we meet Jesus Who changes our plan,

So some of the things that we said about God,

Were based on what’s seen on the ground we have trod.

But Jesus was different and people have seen,

The way that God looks and the way He has been.

But God is a Spirit and doesn’t have form,

For in His dimension we know that’s the norm.

And so we use terms all around us each day;

As found demonstrated in man’s sort of way.

But speaking of Jesus turns things right around.

The things which He did in all people are found.

So He is aware of our hurt and our pain.

Because He went through it, our souls to reclaim.

He suffered as we do and went through the things,

That Satan inflicts and the trouble he brings.

The Lord was no different, He had to go through

The things that His people find they have to do.

He knows about grief; about sickness and hurt.

He knows what it’s like to be dragged through the dirt.

He knows about death and it caused Him to weep.

He told them His friend was not dead but asleep.

But all that He said went far over their head.

They couldn’t believe Him, convinced he was dead.

No wonder He wept at the people He saw,

They didn’t believe Him; that cut to His core.

And now He has faced all the test and the trials

That Satan throws at them to warp and defile.

But Jesus is now on the side of His men.

And they’ll defeat Satan again and again.

For Jesus protects us like we are His eye,

And nothing from Satan will ever get by.

For He truly loves us and treats us like gold

And we will be with Him as eon’s unfold.

Jim Strickland – written Wednesday, 24 August 2011