In about 2003 I wrote this reflection for a Good Friday Service. I've dragged it out and used a few times over the years. But it needed a bit of a re-write. the refrain what love is this has been cut and I've rewritten the last stanza thingy without reference to the Stuart Townsend hymn "How deep the fathers love". What love is this is a favourite line from a worship song 'Glory' from the band 'Form' which starts off as a normal praise and worship clique song, but then its as if the songwriter is surprised by the reality of the presence and love of God... his only response is to sing 'glory'.
Unlooked for
Undeserved
Freely Given
You O God reached down into our
humanity
Even into the darkness of our
inhumanity
With the light of your great Love
Not clutching divine nature
Become a servant
Humble and meek
Obedient even to death
Jesus, who befriended the outcast
Healed the blind, the lame and
cared for the poor
Taught and showed what our
heavenly father is like
Betrayed
Innocent yet condemned
Beaten and tortured
The sovereign king receives a
crown of thorns
The welcoming outstretched hands
nailed to a cross
Hope mocked and spat upon
Gasping for breath
Excruciating pain
Dying
We thought him stricken by God,
cursed
Yet it was our iniquity, our
wrong that he carried
In his death we have freedom and
life
Side pieced
Buried in a tomb
Stone sealed
Beyond our ability to understand
you have done it
Paid the price for us and invited
us in,
What love is this can any grave
hold it down?
What love is this?
Stone rolled away
Hope rekindled
Alive again, risen for the grave
Clean
slate, new life and wholeness
Thank you O God for a love like
this
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