Thursday 13 August 2009

THOUGHTS ON JOHN (v)

You usually think of John
As a contemplator: one whose mind
Had been moulded by dwelling on
The Word.

Why then was this the man
Who craved a high place
In the Lord's kingdom?

Why was this the man
Whose human zeal thought
To call fire from heaven?

Yet it was a mark
Of the Lord's approval
To call him and his brother
Boanerges.

And Christ accepts
No fleshly zeal.

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