In 2005 I wrote this Good Friday Prayer. It is a reflection that incorporates the words of the Servant song in Isaiah 53 and also of Stuart Townsend's great song "How deep the Father's love for us". I'm reusing this Good Friday as part of the service at the my new church St Peter's Ellerslie Mt Wellington. (9:30 am Friday April 6th 7 harrison Road). The below image is one we are using for our Easter services this year, that picks up both the cross and the hope of new life in a sun rise. As always feel free to use anything I write and post here.
What Love is this
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
What Love is this?
A servant
Humble
Obedient even unto death
You sent your son Jesus, who befriended the outcast
Healed the blind, the lame and cared for the poor
Taught and showed what our heavenly father is like
What Love is This?
Betrayed
Innocent yet condemned
Beaten and tortured
The sovereign king receives a crown of thorns
The welcoming outstretched hands nailed to a cross
Likewise the blessed feet that bring good news
What Love is this
Gasping for breath
Excruciating pain
Dying
We thought him stricken by God, cursed
Yet it was our iniquity, our wrong doing that he bore
Through his death we have freedom and life
What love is this?
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 to come to you
What love is this
can any grave hold it down?
What love is this?
How deep the
father love for us
So rich beyond all
measure
That he should
give his only son
To make a wretch
like me his treasure
Thank you O God
for a love like this
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