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FOR GOD SO LOVED ME
OF HUMBLE BIRTH WAS HE
THIS MAN FROM GALILEE
WHO ONCE WALKED UPON THIS EARTH
AS A BOY HE UNDERSTOOD
THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS FATHER’S WORK
FOR HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD
TEACHING ALL TO COME UNTO CHRIST
THEN CAME A TIME WHEN FOR ALL MANKIND
HE WAS TO ATONE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD
TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE HE WENT
“FATHER, IF THOU BE WILLING,
REMOVE THIS CUP FROM ME;
NEVERTHELESS, NOT MY WILL,
BUT THINE BE DONE.”
ARE THE WORDS HE PRAYED
AS HE KNELT BESIDE A ROCK
WITH AN ANGEL BESIDE HIM
MORE EARNESTLY HE PRAYED
HIS AGONY BEYOND COMPARE
DOWN TO THE GROUND
HIS SWEAT WAS AS IT WERE
GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD
FALLING THERE
AS I READ THESE SACRED WORDS
TEARS BEGIN TO FILL MY EYES
AND A PAIN SEARS THROUGH MY HEART
NOT UNLIKE ANY I’VE EVER KNOWN
FOR I REMEMBER A TIME
WHEN I WOULD NOT LISTEN
TO THE WHISPERINGS OF MY SOUL
AND I TOOK A STEP BACK
FROM THE ONE WHO IS LIGHT
AND SOUGHT TO LIVE A LIFE OF MY OWN
IT WAS THEN WHEN I LEARNED
WHAT TRUE SORROW WAS
AS I FELL INTO THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR
FOR ASHAMED AND ALONE IN THE WORLD WAS I
AS MY CHOICES REFLECTED THE NATURAL MAN
THEN CAME THE MOMENT MY SPIRIT CRIED
FROM SOMEWHERE DEEP INSIDE
“TURN ONLY TO HIM WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE
FOR YOU WERE MEANT FOR MUCH GREATER THAN THIS!”
IT WAS THEN THAT I TURNED NOT FROM THE LIGHT
BUT LET IT SHINE ON MY FACE
AND AS THE WARMTH OF HIS LOVE ENVELOPED ME
I WAS REMINDED OF “FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND”
FOR I WAS CARRIED BY HIM WHO IS TRUTH AND LOVE
BY THE ONE WHO EXTENDS MERCY AND GRACE
IT SADDENS ME TO KNOW OF THE PAIN I CAUSED
TO THE LIVING SON OF GOD
FOR EACH OF MY SINS WAS AS A DROP OF BLOOD
THAT FELL ONTO THE GROUND
AS HE KNELT BESIDE A ROCK
BUT THE TIME HAS COME
AS I DEDICATE MY LIFE TO HIM
TO TURN THESE TEARS OF SORROW TO TEARS OF JOY
AS HIS SPIRIT RADIATES THIS KNOWLEDGE THROUGH MY BEING
FOR NOT ONLY HAD “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
THAT HE SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON”
BUT GOD SO LOVED ME
THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE
THAT I MIGHT LIVE WITH HIM AGAIN
By: Cheryl D.Solis
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