Shackled by His Sin

All of humanity
yoked to Adam
bearing the mark of his sin
since the fall in the garden

Carrying the stain of that mark
all our days numbered
failing to live right with God
in him mortality


May 7, 2010
1 Corinthians 15:20
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
1 Corinthians 15:1-58
1 Corinthians 15:21-22

&
Day 227, “Reality of the Resurrection”,
in “Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
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