As part of our ‘I Choose’ series at Breakfast Church, some of our church family have written short reflective poems to help us slow down and sit with these themes a little longer. Each poem explores one of the choices we’re talking about on Sundays.
These aren’t meant to be “answers” or instructions. They’re simply an invitation to pause, reflect, pray and notice what God might be stirring in you. You might want to read a poem slowly, come back to it later in the week, share it with someone else or let it lead into a quiet moment of prayer. Why not light a candle and slowly read …
I Choose Purpose Over Popularity
by Joc Chappell
It’s in Christ that we find out
who we are and what we are living for.
Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up,
He had his eyes on us.
Who we are and what we are living for,
part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone,
He had his eyes on us for glorious lives.
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen.
Part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone,
we look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created,
we look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen,
for everything, absolutely everything, got started in Him and finds it’s purpose in Him.
We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created
long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up,
for everything, absolutely everything, got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him.
It’s in Christ that we find out.