Sanctified / Poem

I asked God to search me,

To reveal the state of my soul.

What I saw inside made me want to run,

But God kept me close.

He showed me two colours;

The outer shell being deep blue.

This layer was how much I loved Jesus Christ;

It was me, renewed.

The centre was bright red,

It was overwhelming to the eye.

It was everything I tried to hide;

Anger, hurt and pride.

I asked God how to live,

Without the red centre bleeding through.

He held out His hand to show me a syringe,

To puncture through the blue.

“This is going to sting,”

God said, as He placed it near my heart.

“But we can only rid you of these things

By slowly making a start.”

But I couldn’t wait;

I asked God to take the red at once.

He said He couldn’t without damaging the blue,

That I would need patience.

It is a surrender,

A need to be honest when I pray.

That the deep blue will fill the centre,

While the red falls away.

God remains faithful,

He helps rid me of the red.

But I need to daily lay down my life,

And know what Jesus did.

Christ died on a cross,

So we can know our God today.

We can now be adopted as His children,

For He is mighty to save.

My heart still has red,

I am ashamed when it bleeds through.

But I will always be God’s beloved daughter,

And praise Him for the blue.

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Sarah xx