Consider Him
April 2013 — Grace & Truth Magazine
>Consider Him
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2-3 NASB
Your holy feet, Lord Jesus, Left heaven’s streets of gold To walk a humble pathway Of misery, and cold. You trudged earth’s dusty highways As God and man complete, You served Your own creation, And washed their weary feet.
Your gentle hands, Lord Jesus, With healing in their touch, Were calloused by the labor That we deserved so much. Those hands that touched the leper, And loosed the bonds of sin, Were pierced for the transgressions Of those who did You in.
Your regal head, Lord Jesus, Relinquished heaven’s crown, Yet earth would not afford You A place to lay it down. Though thorns were made for Adam, And Adam’s offspring now, You took our curse upon You And wore them on Your brow.
If sweat and tears and toil Became the human race. You cast Your lot among us In monumental grace. Your holy soul, Lord Jesus, Assumed our guilt and fears; Your anguish overflowing In bloody sweat and tears. You made us in God’s image – Breathed mortal life within; Then took a human body, Like ours, apart from sin. They scourged that humble body, And nailed it to a tree; They jeered and spit upon it, And mocked Your agony.
They placed a sign above You Rejecting You as king – The only accusation Their scrutiny could bring. You took the grim indictment Of our eternal loss, The list of sins against us, And nailed it to Your cross!
Sin kept us from that Eden, Where God communes with men, By Your propitiation We can draw near again. Though God in righteous judgment Forsook You from His face, Your blood secures our welcome Within the Holy Place.
Oh precious, holy Savior, We’ll gaze in heaven above With earnest adoration Upon Your wounds of love. The scars of our perversion Have vanished with Your pain; But You’ll remain forever, “The Lamb for sinners slain.”By Bud Morris
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.” Revelation 5:12