WHAT DO I REALLY WANT?

Harald K. Haugan is a beloved friend and pastor who founded All Souls Church in Jacksonville, Florida. His latest book includes this wonderful poem, which can serve as the lyrics for a Christian rap song, and an aspiration for all of us.

From Inner Desire to Outer Fire in Spirit Attire

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

I want to be a new man not a stew man or a brew man or a blue man, like I said, a new man, a new man not an old man, a do-man not a mold man.

I want to be a faith man not a wraith man.

I want to be a trust man not a dust, rust and lust man.

I want to be a God man not a sod and clod man.

I want to be a Jesus-man not a tease-us, grease-us and please-us man.

I want to be a Spirit man not a fear-it man.

I want to be a Word man not a nerd man.

I want to be a level man not a devil man.

I want to be a belief man not a thief man.

I want to be a dare-to-be man not a scared-to-be man.

I want to be a love-from-above man not a blow-from-below man.

I want to be a brother man not just another man.

I want to be a see and feed man not a bleed and greed man.

I want to be a real-and-feel man not a wheel-and-deal man.

I want to be a knowing, growing and glowing man, not a stowing, slowing, to-and-fro-ing man.

I want to be an action man not a fraction man.

I want to be an upright man not an up-tight man.

I want to be a zoom man, not a gloom-and-doom man.

I want to be a whole man not a dead man, a soul man not a dread man.

I want to be a mind man, a one-of-a-kind man, an easy-to-find man.

I want to be a fair man, a care man, a share man, a here-and-there and everywhere man.

I don’t want to be a Pharisee in heresy or a Sadducee, it’s sad you see.

I don’t want to be a hypocrite or a phony or a fake in a world of slash and dash, break and take.

There’s so much more waiting at the Gate; when you ask, seek and knock you never have to wait.

I’m moving from fearitude to Spiritude.

All in all, what do I really want?

I want to be what Jesus saw in me when He set me free to be in Him and Him in me.