Creating Good Poems About Christ

By Amanda Baird


Writing good poems about Christ entails writing poems which are spiritual in nature and which reflects the life of Christ. The poems should also be inspirational and encourage people to come to Christ Jehovah. Writing about the life of Jesus in a poetic way entails looking at how he lived and the teachings he taught his disciples.

In order to demonstrate how this may be made possible, it is necessary to look at some of the parables, then analyze how a good poem may be derived from the parable. When Jesus wanted to teach on forgiveness, he used the parable of the prodigal son and the parable of the two debtors. In the parable of the prodigal son, a man had two sons.

The man had a big land and several animals. He also had many workers who were helping him to take care of the wealth. He lived with his two sons harmoniously but one day, the younger son went to his father and demanded that the father to divide to him part of the wealth that belongs to him. The father went ahead and gave him his share. The son left home and went to another town after selling the wealth he was given. He squandered the whole money and was left with nothing. He then went back to his father and asked for forgiveness.

All this while, the elder son was leaving with his father and helping him. When the younger son came back, the farther welcomed him and even celebrated his coming back. Therefore, a poetic writer can use this parable to write a poem which shows an instance where somebody had wrong, then irrespective of the wrong doing; he is forgiven at the end. A poem of this kind encourages people to forgive one another and not to hold any grudge.

Jesus also taught on forgiveness using the parable of the two debtors. Jesus told this story while they were having dinner with his disciples, then a woman who was known as a prostitute joined them on the dinner even though he was not invited. He cleaned the feet of Jesus, anointed the same feet with an expensive oil the kissed it. The disciples felt bad that Jesus was associating with sinners.

A sinful woman who was well known as a prostitute came in to the house and went direct to Christ. She cleaned his feet and then perfumed them with an expensive perfume. She then kissed the feet of Jesus. This was so strange to the disciples. Jesus then proceeded to tell the parable of the two debtors.

When it was evident that the two debtors could not pay their debt, the lender for gave them of the debts. Jesus then asked the disciples, who would be more grateful. The disciples answered that the one who was owed more debt. Jesus then told them that that was the reason why the woman was more grateful than the disciples because he had committed a lot of sins that them but Jesus forgave her of her sins. This parable can also be used to compose a poem to demonstrate the teachings of Jesus.

That is the reason why he kissed the feet of Jesus and went ahead to anoint it. This parable also may be used to compose a poem. The other teaching of Jesus which may be used in composing good poems about Christ is the sermon on the mountain.




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