The Hammer of God

When God walks the earth, He comes to town bearing a hammer, holding in human hands the hammer of God.
The wrath of God is a hammer that BELLOWS – BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! – beats DOWN, batters DOWN, bashes DOWN, breaks DOWN barriers that brought bondage; destroys dark, decrepit dungeons; lays waste the walls, lets in light that love may live.
The love of God is a hammer, carried by Christ the Carpenter, creating, carefully crafting, repairing, rebuilding, restoring, renewing. The love of God is a hammer, whose bone-breaking blows come crashing, crushing carpal capillaries of Christ crucified, let loose the life-blood that His beloved may live.
The power of God is a hammer, to pulverize that which has brought pain, to beat the sword into a plowshare, and to build a new thing, a holy house of healing and help for all humanity.
Raise high the hammer! For when you do, God walks the earth again.
Raise high the hammer! For when you do, you become the hands of God.
Raise high the hammer, and start swinging! The walls of our hate will not stand against it, and the temple of love demands to be built anew.
Raise high the hammer, the hammer of God.

© John M. Munzer