Rain of Reign

Strength pours down from above
Glazing my heart
I now shine from within
The cancer is eaten away
No more blisters of darkness on my soul.
Now it fades away in the light of your Spirit within me,
From a consuming scab,
To a fading gray,
To fullness of You.

Yet still, though this vision I have,
I have not its life nor its truth.
Not for the now.
Seemingly only for eternity.

The struggle continues in my everyday,
For today I am 'every-man.'
Though I have this light shining from within,
Washing my body in the warmth of its grace,
I still hate,
I still look,
I still brood, and seethe, and die.
When will the salvation be more than my soul?
When will my flesh be overtaken?
Must I die everyman's death,
Or can God actually accomplish in me
The new life of His blood
while I yet dwell here on earth?
Have I the patience to find out?
Rain down.