REJECTED!

I don’t want you

Don’t need you

Don’t even care about you.

Get away from me

Always trying to make me

Do things your way

I’m my own boss

Captain of my own ship

I won’t cede control to another

Not even you

I reject your love

Your gift

Your sacrifice

I didn’t ask you to do anything

For me

I didn’t expect you to hang on

That ole tree

Now be gone

I’m tired of feeling

So guilty

BE GONE!


This spoken WORD was inspired by the following scripture from the Holy Bible:

Mark 12:1-12 (NRSV)
The stone which the builders rejected

Then he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower; then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. And again he sent another slave to them; this one they beat over the head and insulted. Then he sent another, and that one they killed. And so it was with many others; some they beat, and others they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this scripture:
'The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord's doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes'?"

When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.


THE INVITATION

If you have questions about how to become a friend and follower of Jesus, please see the devotion entitled, “Come to Jesus” @
http://aintathatgoodnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/come-to-jesus.html