Jesus did not pray that God
should set aside a law of death
for the mourning widow's son,
the daughter of Jairus, or
his good friend Lazarus.
Jesus invoked the law of God's omnipotence,
and this dispelled belief in any other law.
And those called dead arose.
Jesus did not pray that God
should set aside a law of sickness and disease
for the man born blind,
the nobleman's ailing son, or
Peter's wife's feverish mother.
But he invoked the law of God's omnipotence,
and this dispelled belief in any other law.
And those infirm, abed, were whole again.
Jesus did not pray that God
should set aside a law of sin
for the woman taken in adultery,
the shrewd, successful publican, Zacchaeus, or
the man sick of the palsy
("Thy sins be forgiven thee," the Master said to him).
Jesus invoked the law of God's omnipotence,
and this dispelled belief in any other law.
And those who had been slaves to sin were free
and sinned no more.
