Friday, April 15, 2022

Looking On Him Who I Pierced...




Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 
6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it [b]robbery to be equal with God, 
7 but [c]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,
 and coming in the likeness of men. 
8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself 
and became obedient to the point of death, 
even the death of the cross.
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him 
and given Him the name which is above every name, 
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
to the glory of God the Father.
Phil.2:5-8




Where our failures fuel woe
Restitutions rivers flow
Grace, through glory’s dreaded feat
Crowns faith’s cross with joy complete

See His Hands, nail-scar engraved
Love declares the sinner saved
All who repent and believe
Will salvation’s gift receive

Not by works so none can boast
Not by wealth of worldly toast
This salvation we applaud
Is redemption’s gift from God

Let love’s tears of sorrow spill
Down Golgotha’s bloodstained hill
Kiss and wash His nail-pierced feet
With love’s perfume bittersweet

Stricken, sight esteemed Him dead
While He crushed the serpent’s head
While for our ransom He
Hung till death upon that tree

Wound on wound, the King of kings
Did not rue His sufferings
Did not curse the bitter fruit
Of the tree from Jesse’s root

But with love’s humility
Jesus paid sin’s penalty
Hate, in its most crucial fling
Pierced grace and mercy’s wellspring

‘It is finished’ won the fight
Pierced the darkness with True Light
Rent the veil that hung between
What Now IS and what had been

Where this world runs rife with woe
Redemption's rivers still flow
Grace, through glory’s misery
Crowns life's race with victory

© Janet Martin

“They will look on the one they have pierced.”
John 19:37







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