Blessed Redeemer

 

                                                            Blessed Redeemer

There He was hanging on a cross, blood dripping down and a crown of thorns on His head. Jesus didn’t ask, “Why me?” He didn’t call for revenge on the people that put Him there. He suffered but He didn’t complain. Instead, He looked on the people and asked God to forgive them. His shoulders were burdened down with sins of the people. Not just the witnesses who hung Him there but for all those who lived then and live now and in the future. Jesus knew each person He died for and loved us so much that He willingly died for us. There wasn’t a more selfless, loving person that ever lived like the Jesus who shed His blood for us.

Lyrica by Avis B. Christiansen, arranged by Harry D. Loes

“ Up Calvary’s mountain one dreadful morn walked Christ my Savior weary and worn; Facing for sinners’ death on the cross, that He might save them from endless loss.

“Father, forgive them!” thus did He pray, Even while His lifeblood flowed fast away; Praying for sinners while in such woe – No one but Jesus ever loved us so.

O how I love Him, Savior and friend, how can my praises ever find end! Through years unnumbered on heaven’s shore, my tongue shall praise Him forever more.

Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer! Seems now I see Him on Calvary’s tree; Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading, Blind and unheeding, dying for me!”

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