The Saint Must Walk Alone

The Saint Must Walk Alone

Loneliness.

It comes and it goes.

I settles in the middle of the night.

Oh! Surely You would know?

You, who knelt at the Garden, anguished and alone.

Surely, I have to pass through the Garden of my own soul.

Pain.

It comes and it goes.

It settles deep in my heart and soul.

Oh! Surely You would know?

You, who carried the heaviness of the Cross, Hands and Feet pierced.

Surely, I have to let the pierce within.

Crowd.

They come and they go.

Oh! Surely You would know?

You, despite the multitudes, your sorrows were unrelieved.

Deserted and Friendless. No one knew your Heart.

Surely, I, will be a Star that will live Set-Apart..

For the Cross is not a thing of Beauty.

Something to be taken so lightly.

It is an overpowering, overwhelming and all absorbing entity.

It seeks to crucify our old life, hopes and our dreams.

Our plans and will set aside, He be Glorified.

A life lived not for yourself but for Another.

Seeking the Joy and pleasure of the Master.

Oh! Surely You would know?

Surely, you knew.

"...Whose Soul alike a Star and dwelt apart."
The Saint Must Walk Alone.

The Saint Must Walk Alone...

Poem inspired by "The Radical Cross" by A.W Tozer.

Parts of poems from Chapter; "The Saint must walk alone.'