When the movie of my Life is played...

When all is said and done

And I sit before

The story of  my life

Being played before my very eyes

(a testament for all to see)

rushing film like deja-vu

plastered on a screen

I worry

What will I see? 

What will He think?

I cover my eyes with shame

as it can no longer be undone.

I sit still & hopeless

with no one to blame but myself.

The Filmmaker comes my way

and cloaks me with a blanket

made with thread

of forgiveness and grace

I hide in His arms

as I watch this movie unfold

with a turn of events and a change in the plot

I see myself become a new creation

The main character in this film

reminds me of the 

famous figures from the Bible I had read many times before

people who loved Jesus

but were very quick to make mistakes.

standing and falling throughout the story of their life.

The film ends as quickly as it began

a crowd of witnesses around me wait

in silence for Him to decide my fate

From close by I could hear The Accuser

reminding everyone of how guilty I truly was

I fell to my knees

feeling convicted

Only to have The Lawyer

come to my rescue-undeserved.

"Pull up your sleeves"

He kindly asked.

In awe I stared at the tattoos

permanently pressed into my arms

I had been wearing for a lifetime

Irremovable and unquestionable

the Name of Jesus had been

repeatedly written over my skin

My entire body was covered with His name

J e s u s

I had been branded for life 

the day I accepted Him

as my Savior and Lord.

Today I stood before The Father

but Behind The Son

Identified and Forgiven

I was welcomed home

Be Salt & Be Light

Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. 

4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 

5The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 

6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 

8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 

9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. 

10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. 

11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 

12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 

13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelations 3: 3-13