Once and For All

PAD Challenge 15:For today’s prompt, write a “one time” poem. 

And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
John 17:5

What horror bid Thee languish

Thou, Lamb of Calvary

That drew death’s goal from anguish

To glorious victory

What grace flowed from Thy sorrow

Perfection crucified

Once and for all; my Lord, oh

To break sin’s curse, You died

What splendor in submission

What tender agony

What mercy-bowed contrition

Didst plea for you and me

But rock could not contain Him

Nor locks restrain Hope’s Bloom

As ages still proclaim Him

The Victor of the Tomb

Once and for all, my Lord, oh

Man’s awful debt You bore

To save our souls from hell, oh

In death’s Forevermore

Once and for all; ah, Jesus

You took on form of man

Thou, who knew You would free us

Before the world began

© Janet Martin