the cross

2000 years ago today....

i was bought with a price.

my sin was washed away.

Christ endured death on a cross

because He loved me.

He was betrayed by one of His closest friends.

sold out to the chief priests.

"tried" and found guilty

of simply being Who He was.

beaten and flogged relentlessly,

until almost unrecognizable

as the chosen Messiah.

on the brink of certain death.

torn and bleeding and dying

and thinking of me.

He dragged His own cross 

halfway up to the place He would die.

His body frail, weak, barely functioning.

people spit on Him,

mocked Him.

they utterly disgraced Him.

the King of kings and Lord of Lords.

He did not say a word in His defense.

2000 years ago today...

Jesus Christ, the savior of the world

who had done nothing

was put to death, nailed to a cross.

yet He willingly suffered

so that we might be saved.

[because some would never believe]

He willingly suffered

for the glory that was to come.

the joy set before Him.

us, gathered to Him, in eternity forever.

all people, kneeling before Him,

tongues confessing that He is Lord

when He comes again.

He forgave them as they hammered.

2000 years ago today....

our debts were paid in full.

the balance was satisfied.

our punishment poured heavy onto Him

once and for all

that dreadful day so long ago.

the spiritual and the actual curtain

that separated God and man was

torn. in. two.

when the sky went dark

and the earth shook violently.

it was finished.

and they took Him down from the cross

and they laid Him in a tomb.

desperately hopeless

and utterly defeated.

forgetting what He had told them.

.... until Sunday my friends ....

Kristyn Getty singing "The Power of the Cross"