I Don't Understand...

Just As I Am... 

Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed...

I don’t understand

As I look upon

His nail-scarred hands

and thorny crown…

…and as I think how He

put on flesh

so we may obtain

His righteousness…

…or how the perfect

Lamb of God

Left heaven

For this sin-cursed sod…

…or how, when He knelt

In Gethsemane

His thoughts were for

Humanity…

…and how, as He hung

Upon that tree

His cries were still

For you and me…

…or as the spear

Thrust deep, His side

It was still for us

He cried…

…or how, by

Jesus' dying breath

We receive life

Through His death…

No, I don’t understand

Why I receive...

...but this I know

I believe

© Janet Martin

 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith

—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 

 not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, 

that whoever believes in him shall not perish 

but have eternal life. 

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, 

but to save the world through him.

John 3 :16-17