'What About You? ' (Mark 8: 29 Poem by Linda Winchell

What about you…who do you say I am?
Was I just some elaborate…made up story?
Man’s false hopes…a super human kind of man?

Was I really… earth’s salvation?
The one who died one day upon a cross.
Was I sent here to die for mankind’s sin?
And too witness to the hopeless and lost?

What about you…I ask?
Do you truly now …all these years believe?
That a man could have come to bring such hope
To all of… earths humanity?

To suffer at the hands of those
Some who had followed Him… so many years?
And now seen kneeling before the cross…in which Jesus hung
And shed such wasted… and regretful tears.

He came so that you…will not fall victim to Satan’s scheme
And not just see the words written in God’s book
And think… it was but someone’s elaborate trumped up dream.

That, this couldn’t have happen…as the words portray
That a man named “Jesus”…would have done what He did for me.
To give himself for all mankind’s sin
While nailed to a cross…at Calvary.

So I ask…”What About You? ”
“Who do you say I am? ”
If you have not figured it out by now
I was once…just like every… woman..child and man.

But I carried the weight of the worlds sins… upon my shoulders
Sent by my Father to die…so that you might live.
To shed my blood and water…and with broken body
To show the world … the Father’s love… of His only Son for YOU He gives.

By: Linda Winchell
Copyright: 2009