How About That? I’m a Priest

It’s that time of year again, when I study Revelation. While reading the first chapter, I paused after reading verse six:

and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

Revelation 1:6 (NIV)

As a Christian, I am a priest of God and so are you. Yet, of all the ways I identify, I rarely, if ever, think of myself as a priest. I am a servant, a teacher, an apologist, and a brother, with perhaps a dash of evangelism. One might even consider me to be a bit of a theologian, but a priest?

Never.

Show us

Show us the light,
bending, refracting

forays into
hope
longing.

Should We Rejoice Today Over Babylon?

I was reading God’s “message” to Babylon in Jeremiah 50 when I paused at verse 11:

“Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions,”

Jeremiah 50:11 (NIV)

I was reminded of the Christian persecution in Nigeria and elsewhere, even here in the United States, where people openly mock God while subtly and not so subtly persecuting those with Christian values. I can only imagine what’s next.

Reading

your poetry
a spark
flaring—