How do you feel about Good Friday?
Good Friday always get me, when I start thinking about what it means. Reading the Gospel passages, taking Communion at church…
He died. For me. In my place.
My Saviour, dying in agony. For me.
(To find out more about what this all means, you can check out this message).
Below is a song I wrote years ago, about the cross. May it encourage you to think about what Good Friday means, and how it could change everything for you.
Here is Love
Here is where life starts.
Here is where it all begins.
This was the moment when God gave His life
And people are born forever.
Here you kneel in your stains.
Here is the end of pretence.
Here rebels fall dressed in tatters and rags
And they rise as white as snow.
As they find…
This is the place of victory.
This is where chains fall.
Here, in the weakness of wood and nails,
Here is the heart of it all.
This was the moment God took the shame
As love willingly bore the cost.
Here are the arms of your Father.
Here is love at the cross.
Here is where things change.
Here is where you start again.
Here you fall at the end of yourself.
He lifts you up; makes you a child of God.
As you find…
The place of victory.
This is where chains fall.
Here, in the weakness of wood and nails,
Here is the heart of it all.
This was the moment God took the shame
As love willingly bore the cost.
Here are the arms of your Father.
Here is love at the cross.
Won’t you come and kneel?
Come bow down.
Come and surrender.
Come and adore.
Come find hope.
Come find life.
Come find forgiveness.
Come find Christ (your life)
As you find…
This is the place of victory.
This is where chains fall.
Here, in the weakness of wood and nails,
Here is the heart of it all.
This was the moment God took the shame
As love willingly bore the cost.
Here are the arms of your Father.
Here is love at the cross.
Lyrics: Caroline Abblitt, Jennifer Petrie, Wendy Green)
‘Here is Love’ is a song from the album ‘Song of Joy’. You can get it here.
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