No Mere Man

The night of betrayal

Silent and still

As Jesus knelt praying

for the Father's will

.

His friends and followers

Asleep by the trees

While sweatdrops and teardrops

Accompanied pleas

.

Then clatter and horror

A cohort from Rome

Quickens the darkness

They rise with a groan

.

The betrayer at hand

Gives the kiss of death

The angels of God

Must be holding their breath

.

The Creator and Savior

Asks "Whom do you seek?"

Knowing the answer

Before they even speak.

.

"The Nazarene" is the shout

And then comes His reply

"You have found him," says Jesus

"It is I"

.

In the man named Jesus

What they'd sought and found

They did not even know

Til they fell to the ground

.

They had come before

The great I AM

Though dressed only in robes

In the form of a man

.

And felled by the power

In just His name

Those soldiers were stunned

And gasped in pain

.

It must have been minutes

Until they could rise

It must have been murder

That light in their eyes

.

For they bound Him and took Him

To an illegal trial

And they had to have known

The entire while

.

That a simple "I am"

From a mere man is naught

That He had to be God

And He chose to be caught

.

That for their very own souls

He willingly walked

Away from that hill

And went to the cross

.

And it pierces my heart

How He died on that tree

Like the soldiers I fall

When He says "I am He"

.

For there is no other name

with power to save

He was no mere man

Who our sins forgave

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"And there is salvation in no one else;

for there is no other name under heaven

that has been given among men

by which we must be saved."

--Acts 4:12