The Word

The Word

by Todd L. Dias

It is written

That in the beginning was the Word

A Name above all names,

To be sure it is a miracle that we speak

(though sometimes we do so mindlessly)

But how can human words compare to the Divine Word?

Human words disclose,

naming what they encounter.

Like Hadu’i walking the world

claiming ownership.

we call the mountain,

and the forests and seas as well,

to yield to us,

but it is the Word who spoke all things into being

and it is this power alone that can move the mountain,

breaking the noses of the arrogant.

Human words disclose Being and beings there within

But The Word reveals God Himself

something beyond Being.

Beyond but by no means alien to it

Humbly and majestically,

The Word took on flesh

The miracle of an Emmanuel God

Humility and suffering freely accepted

Vulnerable but unconquerable,

He lived, died, and rose again.

Like infants in their first precarious steps,

we stumbled and fell away from our loving Abba

When we were held for ransom by Satan’s horde

The Word came as an emissary of light

to occupied territory,

the shadowy lands of our hearts,

to pay the ultimate price

Dying to set us free.