Reprieve From Pain

Poem
Written By Matt Antis

I’m feeling fine
With peace of mind
Knowing that my Savior’s work
Has sown this heart, tilled this dirt

His word took root
Pressed my sour fruit
Lifted in the sinner’s cup
He drank wrath, lifted me up

Wrapped in arms of love
Never did he leave
Overflowing breath of God
I’m corrected with your rod

Though I’m in pain
Your grace’s like rain
You bring peace within
While I wrestle sin

The blood of Jesus lets me prevail
He leads me like a lamb through the vale

(Lord of love
Come from above
And take me out of here!)

A new body
Pleasing and whole
Like fresh grounds boiling, I wait
To enter your pearly gate

Lord, I can’t wait to go home!

Copyright © 2021 by Matt Antis. Originally published in Poet’s Guild’s Poem-A-Week on May 15th, 2021, by Ink Jot Kingdom.

Matt Antis

Matt Antis creates online as a freelance writer and novelist who formerly lived as a serial small-business entrepreneur. His life’s goal is to share knowledge, encourage, and challenge others through a coach-student relationship.

An unexpected deployment with the Army in 2009 halted his scholastic achievement, but! He learned the bulk of business in the proverbial trench elbow to elbow with a team of professionals who he is forever grateful for.

When he’s not being a husband, dad, shooting his bow or training parkour, you can find him teaching Sunday school, advising parkour gyms, writing for inkjotkingdom.com and his wife’s children’s book website, whitneyantis.com.

https://inkjotkingdom.com
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