Good Friday

Above all powers, above all kings

Above all nature and all created things

Above all wisdom and all the ways of man

You were here before the world began

Above all kingdoms, above all thrones

Above all wonders the world has ever known

Above all wealth and treasures of the earth

There's no way to measure what you're worth

CrucifiedLaid behind the stone

You lived to die

Rejected and alone

Like a rose

Trampled on the ground

You took the fall

And thought of us

Above all...

~Michael W. Smith~

His state was divine,
yet Christ Jesus did not cling
to his equality with God
but emptied himself
to assume the condition of a slave,
and become as men are,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross
Ours were the sufferings he bore,
ours the sorrows he carried.
but we thought of him as someone punished,
struck by God and brought to low.
Yet he was pierced through for our sins.
On him lies a punishment that brings us peace,
and through his wounds we are healed.
We had all gone astray like sheep,
each taking his own way,
and the Lord burdened him
with the sins of all of us.
Harshly dealt with, he bore it humbly
he never opened his mouth,
like a lamb that is led to slaughter-house,
like a sheep that is dumb before its shearers
never opening its mouth.
By force and by law he was taken;
Would anyone plead his cause?
Yes, he was torn away from the land of the living;
For our faults struck down in death.
They gave him a grave with the wicked,
a tomb with the rich,
though he had done no wrong
and there has been no perjury in his mouth.


~Philippians Chapter 2 ; Isaiah Chapter 52 - 53 ~

(Simply Jenn takes a break for the weekend, in conjunction with Good Friday and Easter))