Flash

Don't give me your flash and swagger.

Your thirst for power and control.

All the words seem hollow as you

Dance and sway on the stage

There are things deeply true

But they are held on the edges

Never making it to light in your world.

 

I am not afraid to be the smallest

It doesn't scare me. Remember

Israel was chosen not for power and might

But because it is the smallest. Only the small

Learn deep things about who they are

And whose they are. They relearn that

Being the majority did us no favors.

We learn more by being the minority.

More about true power and surrender.

 

 

There is something in not controlling

The swell of the tide, which is profoundly

different. We are not dependent on the

Short wave of popularity, we are

Upon the God of light and life.

So don't sell God short with tales of loss

In this life, God has already had poverty,

Already had small and it didn't phase

God one bit. Throw down the idol

Of bigger, majority, our way and you may

Just come to see God's way on the horizon.