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Reign, King Jesus!

I’m a follower -
my life,
my attitudes,
my actions...
are shaped
by others.
Even when I think
I choose
individually,
uniquely,
personally,
I am being squeezed
ever so subtly
into someone else’s mould.

Yet Jesus came,
not to manipulate,
but to forgive
and to give
life
to all who believe.
When my life
is focussed
on him,
his life
reaches through me
to others.

You call me, Lord!
I choose to follow!
Reign, King Jesus!


© Peter J Blackburn 2002
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