The Murderer

     Jesus chose to die on the Cross.  He did it to save all people from the sin we continually choose to place in our live.  So, even though Christ chose to die for us in order to provide grace and an eternal life to His people, we placed Him on that Cross.  I am so very grateful, that though it all, He planned it, knowing who I really am, and still loves me.

The Murderer

Who was enticed 

to kill Jesus Christ?

Who did this heinous crime,

rejecting a love so sublime?

Here was an unjustifiable death, 

drawing blood and the Savior's very breath. 

Imagine a painting, a picture;

a hate-filled mixture;

A mob yelling, screaming,

tears streaming;

A Savior on the Cross, bruised and bleeding;

God's Son, in pain, forgiving

while taunters chose pretentious living. 

Look at the tortured Man within the scene, 

 yet willing to wipe sins clean. 

Who was responsible for this brutal act

upon a Savior, come to keep life intact? 

Who did this deed?

Who took the lead? 

Who was this murderer, 

this cold-hearted slaughterer?

It was me, it was you, it was all of us

in our sin, standing thus.   

                      Mary Crisp Jameson