A Conversion Poem

Mark 5:1-20

Good morning! This is a poem I wrote a few months ago based on the account of demon possessed man of Gadara when he came to Jesus and was converted.

When I consider the meaning of life

I know that my purpose lies in something greater than me.

Are we here by accident as they would have us to believe? Or is there someone that is greater than me?

The world outside seems so ordered and consistent, but within me there is chaos, something volatile to my existence.

Is there no peace that can be found within, something that I can grasp that keeps me from being tossed?

I feel that there are a thousand different voices and thoughts that pull me apart so that I feel torn, pulled in every direction taking me away from all that is me.

But Lo, I look and see coming from a far, a beauty that no one beholds, because of his scars.

I see him a withered, battered and bruised and yet I wonder how could such a one endure such suffering.

I am compelled to run to him though the voices say flee. I go to him in desperation knowing that he, though himself beaten and torn can help me.

I fall down before him and he speaks, but it is as though he is speaking to someone besides me.

I here these voices as thay respond to his command, with such authority his voice in no way can they can withstand.

Come out of him is what’s he says, and all of sudden I feel peace, calm and no dread.

Having come to myself and notice my nakedness and shame, I feel the urgency to cloth myself and cover the scares of my anguish and pain.

You see I now know that l am healed by the peace that I have, I still hear a voice, not voices, and that voice brings me to calm.

This man’s name is Jesus and he made the whole world that is beautiful, ordered, and sustained, but what I observed outside of me, now has been created within.

When I consider the meaning of life I know that my purpose lies in something greater than me.

But that something is someone who created me for a purpose, that has made me greater than I ever imagine I could be.

Pastor Robby