Stay In The Middle With Jesus

Last weekend we were honored to be in services at New Life Beginnings Church in Pattison Texas. God moved tremendously in both the services Saturday and Sunday. As I ministered on Extreme Seasons, our friend and partner Charles Kalkomey wrote a poem I want to share;

Stay in the Middle

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Luke 23:33

On top of that hill, there were three crosses that stood.

Darkness and evil strived to wipe out things good.

The law of the land had hung two men there on.

A third hung there tho' He had done no wrong.

The two on the sides of the one in the center,

Were there 'cause of the lives lived as a sinner.

The crowds that jeered had no pity for the two,

As the time was near to receive their just due.

But the one in the middle was following a plan,

For He had come now to show the truth to man.

Yet every time He showed others the the love to give,

The self-proclaimed leaders declared this man couldn't live.

The "King of the Jews" were the words the sign said,

Hung on the one in the middle the "church" wanted dead.

No one ever understood what His kingdom was to be.

No one would open their eyes so that they might see.

The man on the right mocked Him, as others did, too.

"If you are the Christ, then save us, and save you."

Others mocked this carpenter's son, with a laugh and a grin,

Not knowing that something new was about to begin.

But the one hanging on the left knew what was true,

That they were receiving what they were justly due.

But the one in the middle, from God He did not stray,

Asked for remembrance when entering His Kingdom that day.

When you look at what the Son did on the cross that day,

That the chains of the past are broken and fall away.

Don't go back to what leads you to the left or right,

But stay in the middle with Jesus focused in your sight.

© 2010 Charles A. Kalkomey

April 17, 2010