Analysis of Standing In The Shadows
The wind gracefully danced through the trees as I stared with eyes wide open fixed and focused on a young tender olive leaf, which seemed to hang lifeless on a limb.
Gone was the peace of God that so permeated my soul and in its place is the skin of a stinking lie stuffed with shame and fear.
Gone was the power of God that seem to so saturate everything that I set out to think and do, and in it’s place is the haunting, overwhelming feeling of absolute inadequacy.
Gone was the very presence of God, and in His Place is a void, nothingness, an emptiness of life and soul.
Now, I stand naked in the shadows. For the heat of the day is past, and yet my sin abides.
Did I not understand when God told me not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Did I not understand that in eating I
would surely die?
Did I not understand that I was created under
His Authority and that He does all things Good, Glorious, and Right (Genesis 2:17)?
I tell you, I did understand!
I tell you that His Word was clear unto me!
I tell you that I was not deceived (2Timothy 2:14), but I was determined to go my own way!
Anger, resentment, guilt, and confusion raise up and war against me as in the distance I hear the voice of One who is altogether Lovely as He graciously asks:
“Adam, where are you?”
“Where am I?” you ask.
“Here I am Father, standing naked in the shadows away from Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6).”
“Where am I?” you ask.
“Here I am Father, standing in my sin overwhelmed in shame, guilt, and death.”
“Where am I?” you ask.
“Here I am Father, in need of a Savior who can take away my sin and restore me unto God.
Here I am Father!
Hiding naked in the
shadows!
For the heat of the day is past, and yet my sin abides!"
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Characters | 1,807 |
Words | 396 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 21 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 53 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Pondering the thoughts of Adam moments after the Fall.
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