HUMAN WORDS, DIVINE WORKS

HUMAN WORDS, DIVINE WORKS

The world is loud with human words.
Kings speak.
Preachers speak.
Politicians speak.
Crowds rise and fall like waves of restless tongues.
Promises are built like towers of sand,
and every age baptizes its own ambitions
with sacred language.

Yet truth does not tremble
because men speak loudly.

For beyond the noise of human certainty,
the quiet works of God continue.

A hungry man is fed.
A forgotten woman is seen.
A wounded soul rises again from despair.
Mercy enters a place abandoned by systems.
Light appears in the smallest room of suffering.

And heaven speaks without shouting.

Jesus Christ did not conquer the world through spectacle.
He walked dusty roads.
He touched diseased skin.
He forgave trembling sinners.
He wept beside graves.
He carried the Cross through the violence of human fear.

Men argued theology while He healed the broken.
Men defended power while He washed feet.
Men protected institutions while He restored neighbors.
Men raised accusations while He raised the fallen.

Human words condemned Him.
Divine works revealed Him.

The Cross became the great unveiling.

For there humanity saw itself clearly:
religion without mercy,
politics without conscience,
crowds without understanding,
justice without love.

Yet even beneath nails and mockery,
the works of God remained stronger than the hatred of men.

Forgiveness survived.
Mercy survived.
Love survived.
Truth survived.

The stone rolled away,
and all the speeches of empire
could not bury resurrection.

Still today,
human words continue to divide, accuse, market, manipulate, and glorify themselves.
But divine works continue quietly among the lowly:

in shared bread,
in unseen kindness,
in tears wiped from tired faces,
in neighbors refusing to abandon one another,
in conscience awakened by grace.

For the Kingdom of God does not finally rest upon the eloquence of men,
but upon the living works of mercy flowing through the spirit of Jesus Christ.

And when all human words fade like smoke in the wind,
the works of love shall remain.

Pastor Steven G. Lee
Street GMC Corps

May 18, 2026