"It is Finished"

The cry rang out –

                “It is finished”

As the crowd still laughed

                And scoffed His name

This man, This God

                This Jesus

Now bloody, beaten – unrecognizable

                As the man who

                Came to save

Just hours ago

He sat with them,

Declared – “this is my body

                This, my blood.”

But as they watched

                Among the masses

How could they have

                So misunderstood

He had told them

                This was coming

But never did they realize

Now witness to man’s brutality

He took His last breathe

                Before their eyes.

Night came –

                They took down this ‘savior’

Placed Him in the tomb

Believers all scattered

Not wanting to face the questions

                “You, you knew him too?”

The AGONY of those days

                Without LOVE

How desperate it must have been –

                Even to God ABOVE

But “It is finished”

                Didn’t end upon the tree

Never was He to be kept there

Holding ALL our sins

                On Calvary

Night came –

                Still no king

                And the world was dark

But morning –

                This next morning

Would be the awakening of

                10,000 hearts.

Morning –

                “He is gone, He isn’t there”

Then He appeared to several

                “Don’t you know me,

                I am here.”

“I’ve done everything

                I said I would do.

But most of all

                I came to show

How much I love you!”

“It is Finished”

He came – Died

                He is ALIVE!

And more than anything

He longs to walk

                By our side.

He finished the journey

                So death

                Has so power o’er our soul

He gave to us a life

                That makes us whole.

3/30/13

clc