ReelInnovative
Mistaken Identity - A Spoken Word Easter Presentation
For Easter. A story of our beginnings and where Jesus comes in.
Performed by Phil Long
Written by Phil Long and Jamie Lawson
Produced by Jamie Lawson
It was a mistake, This going our own way;
Not trusting The One who loved us into being.
We see that now.
The Choice appeared wise
- but the promised knowledge was poisoned with mistrust.
“You’ll know good and evil. ..become just like God.”
The betrayal appeared delicious
- but we choke on the bitterness it brought - into this life He gave.
We still abandon Creator,
- suffocating in the staleness of our insurrection.
We're on the outside now - looking in.
The warmth, and light, and life we once had,
a deep memory our hearts still crave, but we never seem to know.
We ARE the collateral damage.
The deafening roar of our defiant separation from LifeGiver ...still wrecking our souls
- Fear, speaking louder than Peace
- Shame, louder than Trust
- Fissures of doubt, growing the space between us
New-found desires claim the seats of influence
- The desire to take instead of give
- The desire to dominate and oppress
- The desire to manipulate and hoard
Their mistaken Choice has become Our selfish stampede
– We are out of control.
Darkness reigns where there once was light.
We need different words to speak our fallen reality.
Broken words.
Hopeless. Hungry. Desperate. Greed. Betrayal. Tears.
...Death.
His life-giving Revelation had been reduced…to our Resignation.
There was no way out alive.
- How could all this hurt be unbroken?
- Who could dry these tears?
- Unmake our loss?
- Who would ever be worthy?
So He came, and wrote with truth upon the sacred scroll
- A new story…
- This sadness, unremembered...
- This death, removed…
- This life reborn…
Our past so tragic,
Our present, so tainted,
But our future is full of hope!
And now, the time has come for us to sing a new song
- To tell a new story,
Where His spent blood heals our hope and transforms our bitter wreckage into joy.
Where lost are found,
Slaves set free,
Death destroyed!
Where the Risen One,
- the Only Son of Heaven,
- God/man, Living Proof of Love,
calls us home again