POISON
WRITTEN BY MIRYNA VAN AS
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There is a door, a door no man can ever open once it has shut. A door that leads right into the heart of darkness, where hope is nothing but a memory.
In its stomach brews a deadly poison, a poison you yourself have crafted over the years with selfishness, lies, hate, jealousy, anger, slandering, lust, greed, idolatry, cheating, intoxication, pride, revenge and all your self-serving ways.
Now it’s final ingredient: death. It’s perfectly brewed to last all of eternity and its tailor made just for you. With its’ corridors of fire, the deafening screams of the ones that have entered there and the nauseating stench of smoke and the poison you have brewed.
You deserve this, you do, and you know it, you have picked the ingredients yourself. You stand before this door with your last breath in your lungs, faced with what you deserve, but your heart is filled with joy, because you know… this door has opened from the inside once before… you know, a light came out of this endless darkness once before and you know… He has the key.
He is the perfect Lamb of God, He is the final sacrifices, He is the Name above all names and the saviour of the world and because you know His voice, you can hear His call and because you seeked His kingdom and His righteousness He takes your hand.
You had to go past that door, but He did it for you. You deserved everything that lies beyond it, but He took it upon Himself. Someone had to drink that poison so He did it, but the chains of hell could not hold Him down, the darkness could not consume Him, and death could not keep Him in.
The stone was rolled away, and death was defeated. He is alive and victorious, but His victory is yours. God wanted us to be with Him, but payment had to be made for the sins of man, so He settled our debt and His love made a way.
Jesus went beyond the borders of hell to save you, He offered up His body for you and me. No greater love will man ever know. He came for the broken so that by His wounds we would be healed of everything that made us fit to enter that door.
Jesus came to my rescue and He can do the same for you.
May you have a blessed Easter with your family.
Miryna van As