But Lo, I Looked And Saw A Cross...

PAD Challenge day 12: For today’s prompt, write a guilty poem.

But lo, I looked and saw a cross...hallelujah! thank-you Jesus

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I should and would be damned and doomed

Without reason to smile or sing

Hope would be like a corpse exhumed

Deadness that wears a shroud of skin

Where mortal best attempts at love

Could never touch or soothe that place

And more would never be enough

Until it is filled with God’s grace

When humble Belief softens Hearts

Then Heart beholds soul’s utter guilt

…how Christ, and Christ alone imparts

Redemption through His life-blood spilt

And forgiveness is full and free

Through Sacrifice that washes clean

Where death and hell would ever be

Jesus and Heaven intervene

I should and would by Guilt be cursed

A wretch, bound for what I deserve

But lo, I looked and saw a cross

Immersed in love without reserve

Where Perfection His life out-poured

To atone once for all, guilt’s ban

So that The Way would be restored

From man to God and God to man

© Janet Martin

Account of Jesus' death and burial; John 19
Account of Jesus' resurrection; John 20

Psalm 103:1-6

 Praise the Lord, my soul;
    all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
² Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—
³ who forgives all your sins
    and heals all your diseases,
⁴ who redeems your life from the pit
    and crowns you with love and compassion,
⁵ who satisfies your desires with good things
    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

The Lord works righteousness
    and justice for all the oppressed.