Easter week 2010 cont -

... continuing the "Look back at Calvary" posts that link to Easter 2009. :)

Thankful and astonished that He took the place
that I deserved ... and I am His forever because He did,
~ Jean Marie


April 9th, 2009 -

"He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities." - Isaiah 53:5


"O Sacred Head, now wounded"
1. O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was Thine!
Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. 
2. What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners’ gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ’Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, vouchsafe to me Thy grace. 
3. What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest friend,
For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever, and should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never outlive my love to Thee.

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Comments

  1. And even HIS grace must give us the strength to love Him as we ought. I, too, never want to outlive my love for Christ...
    Love,
    mcd

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