lights & love

I started this poem after reading John 13:34-35, but as I was writing it I thought of the passage in Philippians that talks about being lights in the world. I want to share the verses before the poem.

John 13:34-35 (ESV)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Philippians 2:14-:15 (ESV)
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world

If the world is watching,

let us be lights shining

in the darkness, blinding,

let us blind the darkness

with nothing but love

for we know what love is 

because Jesus Christ

the Son of God first

loved us and

called us to love.

If the world is watching,

let us love

let us love like Christ

let us show His love

to this world, it's watching

because we're not of it

The world can see Christ in us

when we love one another

and in a world of darkness,

of hate and of all things wrong,

we're needed to love and to be lights

so let us love

so let us be the lights fighting

back the darkness

we will love and tell the world

of the love we're shown by

Christ and the darkness

will not overcome it

for our great God

is always with us,

always before us,

and always beside us.

With Christ with us

we have nothing to fear

so we'll love and show

the love we were shown

to a world without it

and we'll be the lights

blinding the darkness

because we shine bright

when we love

and know that we are loved

by He who laid down His life

so that we might know how

greatly loved we are

so that we might show the world how

greatly loved it is.