Here is the Lamb of God

Behold.

Small and vulnerable;

God among us.

Gospel number four

tells us that we deal no longer

with the infant of Bethlehem,

with its sentimental trappings

of wise men, blinking lights and angels.

The long-expected one,

the divine Logos, has come,

according to John,

to be a lamb;

to speak to humankind of sacrifice,

of letting-go,

and of death.

Of love, of grace,

and of blood

that demands a response;

not of vengeance,

but of generosity.

Weakness,

by all earthly standards,

but the way of hope, peace,

and resurrection.

Here is the Lamb of God.

©Ken Rookes 2014