Rahab

My very world crumbles...

I choose a people I've never known, 
I see a God, beyond my own. 
My heart stirred at these two men, 
Was I looking for love, or more, in them?
Was I looking beyond, a stirring for home, 
Past these walls that I have known?
I may have chosen this life, or maybe it chose me, 
But perhaps there's a God beyond the ones I can see. 
Perhaps I need an exodus too, 
Perhaps it's known in this YAH of Hebrews. 
I look to the hills, 
And my expectancy builds, 
And then they come, 
And round me drum, 
And I wait - 
My life unwound
With each passing round. 
My faith swaying
With the scarlet cord in the wind, 
Until the shouting of Your army
Completely undoes me, 
And simultaneous frees me. 
Shout to the LORD
All the earth, now I hear, 
And the very rocks must cry out, 
As this city's wall of great stone
Falls flat in a crash; 
My very world crumbles, 
But this cord of blood-
Red delivers me, 
Hanging there, for all to see. 


~ By Sierra Westerholm

Photo by Smit Patel on Unsplash

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