Mission Impossible: Replaced

The mission was impossible

(At least, that’s what was said)

The people were so long enslaved

They’d never understand

Despite this thought, the Prince, he went

And took the human guise

In stature and in wisdom grew

Won praise before our eyes

The mission went full well at first

The Prince he walked the land

Until betrayal from a friend

That seemed to end the plan

But treachery was not unseen

He used it for the best

Stormed through the fortress of the fiend

And stole the keys of death!

Now he walks into the room

That holds people full of fear

He frees the slaves and saves the doomed

And gives his life for theirs

But he who holds the keys of death

Can never conquered be

Three days it was and then returned

The Prince in full glory

The records now exchanged have been

Replaced by him, the Prince

Not just erased, but full exchanged

For his of truth and grace

Despite this all the enemy

Still thinks that he can win

He guards the broken fortress walls

To keep his prisoners in

But therein boldly strides the Prince

Ignoring dark and gloam

Penetrates the heart with ease

And brings his people home

The mission was impossible

(At least that’s what was said)

Until the Prince stepped into life

And let us understand

Back in May, when we finished the Program, we all had to make a "Stone of Remembrance" that represented something that we learned over the year and would take away with us.  For me, it was the picture above, albeit a very much rougher and uncolored picture.  Recently, I re-sketched and colored a new picture and wrote the poem to accompany it.  Together, they make up my "Stone of Remembrance."  A reminder that when Christ died and rose again, He did not simply erase my sin but rather replaced my record with His own.  I do not work from the emptiness of my own strength but from the fullness of His righteousness!