Oh my God
Oh my God,
My God indeed,
Creator of infinite space,
Come to this God-forechosen place,
Majesty, omnipotence, glory,
Distilled in this newborn grace.
How can it be
This your contradictory singularity?
God and man
Shepherd and lamb.
Prince and peasant
Saviour and sacrifice.
Potentate and refugee
One and three.
Oh my God,
My God indeed,
Sole seed of divine purity
Come in mortal humility to bleed
For all our sin-stained need.
Oh my God, my God in deed…
Come to me. Come to me…
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Mark Greene, Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC)
From Adventure: Christmas Poems (Muddy Pearl Books, 2014).
Mark was a student, and later Lecturer at London Bible College, one year ahead of me (Glyn).