When the world says
when the world says…
when the world says I am worthless,
You say I am worth it.
when the world says I am broken,
Your love makes me whole again.
When the world calls me weird
You call me Yours.
when the world says the sea is too deep,
You hold the waters back for me.
when the world says the flames will consume me
You are in the fire by my side.
when the world has me held captive in my sin,
Your cross says I am no longer a slave to sin.
when the world says,
Jesus says I have overcome the world!
About this poem
this poem is about what the world says about us vs. what our Creator and Savior Jesus Christ says about us it goes off of a verse in Hebrews 12:23 which declares that Christ's blood speaks a better word over us than that which the world speaks.
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Written on December 22, 2022
Submitted by nicholebarwick on March 07, 2024
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| Scheme | A xx xx xx xb bx cc Ax |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 508 |
| Words | 123 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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