A Roman Centurion Sought Out the Lord

A Ro­man cen­tu­ri­on sought out the Lord:

My serv­ant is suf­fer­ing

but just give the word!

For I have au­tho­ri­ty; you have it

too.

I know he’ll be well with a bless­ing from you.

Then Je­sus re­spond­ed to those who were near

There’s not

in God’s peo­ple

the faith I’ve found here.

And some­day God’s king­dom will bring a sur­prise

With out­sid­ers in and the heirs left out­side.

The Lord sent him home and it soon was re­vealed

That just at that mo­ment

the serv­ant was healed.

That out­sid­er saw it; may we see it

too:

That Christ has the pow­er to make our lives new.