Greater Things

The woman

Ninety, if she was a day

Stood on her porch. 

The trash on the sidewalk embarrassed her

but what could she do?

As she watched, 

a man with a garbage bag

walked into her yard

and started clearing away the mess.

At her look of puzzlement,

he said, "I'm here to help.

I'm from the church."

Greater things have yet to come

and greater things are still to be done

in the city.

There is no God like our God.

The father sat with his son

on the bench outside the principal's office.

The teenager had been caught

His locker yielding pills.

The father's heart was broken.

The son's future hung in the balance.

Neither knew what to do.

Except pray.

Greater things have yet to come

and greater things are still to be done

in the city.

There is no God like our God.

The child hid in the backyard

Trying to be invisible.

She hurt, and she knew worse was coming.

If he found her.

If he saw her.

The sound near the tree startled her,

She didn't trust the voice of the neighbor,

but to the neighbor, she wasn't invisible.

She took her hand, 

and they went in the neighbor's house.

The kind woman called someone

and told her she would be safe.

Greater things have yet to come

and greater things are still to be done

in the city.

There is no God like our God.

(Quote from God of This City (Chris Tomlin))