Would You go through this for me?

Would You go through this for me?

For me, O Lord and King?

Would One so pure and holy

Really suffer for MY sin?

Would You endure the loss of friends,

The loneliness and isolation?

Would You O Lord be mocked, 

And be totally forsaken?

Would You endure the scourging whips, 

The nakedness and shame,

So that Your Church could be Your Bride

And bear Your Holy Name?

Would You endure the searing pain,

The hunger and the thirst,

So that Your people would not die

But rejoice in joy and mirth?

Would You endure the Father's wrath,

Taking on our sinful chains, 

So that You would have an holy people

Who with You would reign?

I can scarcely understand it, 

I can scarcely believe it's true. 

The One so pure and Holy, 

My sins You would undo?

Jesus came to take the wrath

The loneliness and shame, 

Be forsaken and beaten,

So we may have His name.

Jesus came to be denied, 

He stood condemned instead

He came to lose His closest friends,

Who were fearful, lacked faith and fled

He came to thirst, and hunger feel,

To bear the Father's rage, 

The sinless One took on our sin, 

Redeeming from age to age! 

He:

 still forgives, 

changes lives,

We look to Him 

for everything

Redemption is completely free!

We do not have to work or toil.

He can set us:

free from the

darkness life

brings, from 

sadness and 

sorrow & pain.

He brings us 

Into newness

of life and love

and heals our

broken hearts

© Carolyn Davison 18th April 2017