Thy Sacrifice for Me

 

When cast my thoughts upon the day

when sacrifice began

that thou would give thy life for mine

I canst not take it in

Unhallowed lips hurled hate filled words

pretentious and unlearned

the spitted blows upon thy face

diffused and most unearned

Contemptuous speech did hail the air

false witnesses untrue

appeared before thy sacred face

were laced with ridicule

Creation's blow to thus absolve

thy kingship and thy rule

their ignorance made manifest

by unbelieving fools

Thy battered brow thus beaten red

thy wrangled heart torn out

The wretched stripes upon thy back

the wound struck deep in doubt

Thy flowing blood and bruised face

Thy bloodied back and crown

the thorns pressed deep within thy pate

the cross borne falling down

The driven stakes that hung thee there

upon that wretched cross

the evil of my sin held firm

while paying for my loss

And lest I be forlorn to fail

forgetting absence still

My God, My God Forsaken thee

according to thy will

The spear within thy side did pierce

heart's water and thy blood

while guilty soul my fate thou saw

thus spilled eternal love

And peering down the ages fore

thou viewed my soul condemned

and sacrificed thy earthly life

to thus remove my sin

Now grateful thus forever more

my soul shall worship thee

e'er for my sake thou hast received

the death thou paid for me

I'll spend my life in humbled bow

what thou wouldst not recant

forgiving thus my anguished soul

by grace that thou didst grant

And till I lay my eyes to rest

Thy sacrifice for me

alone doth give me sacred hope

eternal life with thee