The magician is confounded

After Acts 8:9-13

A conjurer of signs, a magician

of wonders, doing far more than

pulling rabbits from hats, or so

it appeared, a celebrity who

so amazes and so dazzles that

even he calls himself great,

his magic renowned across

the city, across the region, 

hailed as the power of God.

But on the day the visitor

speaks and preaches, the day

the visitor heals the lame and

exorcises the spirits, the day

when the joy erupts across

the city, he sees a power

greater than his own, and he,

too, believes; he, too, is 

of one accord with the crowd;

he, too, is washed in the water

of forgiveness and a new birth.

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