Tarnish

We print it

on our coffee mugs,

tattoo it

to our skin,

slather it

on social media,

but do we really believe it?

Does it sear into our very souls?

Does it burrow in our bones?

Does it soak into our skin

like a watering rain

down in the deepest roots

of the oak

that stretch into the dark soil?

I want that.

I want it to be the

bones

soul

roots

and blood that paces

in ceaseless rhythms around

the hollow tunnels of my heart.

I want the truth

to be more

than tarnish.

"I think it is virtually impossible to honestly say that knowing God, as God intends to be known by his people in the new covenant, simply means mental awareness or understanding or acquaintance with God. Not in a million years is that what “knowing God” means here...You can know about God by research; but until the researcher is ravished by what he sees, he doesn't know God for who He really is." John Piper