HELPLESSNESS

Sin was trading helplessness at one half market value
to guarantee its future stock in trade.
As uninformed investors, seeing value in the deal,
we bought and never saw our power fade.
But fade it did, and helplessness now occupies the seat
where power sat since ever time began.
And Sons of God perceive themselves as helpless sinful men
instead of Spirit's perfect sinless man.

But we could not admit the Son of God was without power,
and so we dealt the self-inflicted blow
which severed us from Sonship with the Father in belief.
In helplessness we soon became the foe,
antagonistic to the Son of God, and to his power — 
a power the ego claims we were denied.
And so we learned to envy and to fear the Son of God, 
and from his righteous judgement sought to hide.

The armies of the powerless we joined to wage a war
of vengeance, spite, -- to make him one with us.
Forgetting we were one with him as Sons of God ourselve,
we sought to vindicate our hatred thus.
But hatred needs an enemy, a target to attack,
and God's annointed makes a useless foe.
With blessing he restores to us the power we would trade
for helplessness from sin's portfolio.

Whoever speculates in helpless futures suffers loss,
a fact that sin is desperate to conceal.
For trade in helpless futures is its only claim to power,
and so it markets helplessness with zeal.
But sin is not a broker in the realm of real power,
and so it can't preserve a stock in trade.
As we discern the helplessness and poverty of sin,
we calmly watch its trading power fade.


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