The Gift
He said He'd share His gift with me if I'd share mine with Him
For His gift is eternal life complete with diadem
But mine is just a simple choice that I have soon to make
A choice no one can make for me as to which path I'll take
Which path of two that'r offered me while I have time to choose
While I have time here to decide before the one I lose
For being indecisive is deciding after all
To let the world decide for me to skip the Saviour's call
And fall in line with others who have chosen not to be
Accustomed to the promise that is offered you and me
The promise of a heaven that we call His paradise
That He has made available to us through Sacrifice
That Sacrifice that looks to us to feel the same way too
The way that Jesus felt when He beheld what He must do
To save the ones He loved so much who knew Him not at all
The ones who wandered in the dark not answering His call
The ones who though they had each day His lessons to receive
In scripture and in emblems that in Him they might believe
And know Him without question as the Lamb of Sacrifice
Messiah come to take their sins and pay the dearest Price
And willingly abandon all the comforts He had known
To be abused and beaten stripped and naked all alone
Because there was no other way than that that He could choose
To save the lost and offer them what they were born to lose
Than to be nailed upon the cross to die in agony
Because the hardness of the hearts destroyed their will to see
That hanging there before them was the King of all the earth
Who formed celestial bodies long before His human birth
Who with His words had spoken all they knew of life in place
And Who with just a whisper could remove that time in space
But out of love eternal love that only He could know
He left His throne in glory through His Sacrifice to show
How we too might be like Him in our willingness to be
An offering of sacrifice for all the world to see
The love that God has gifted us that we like Him might share
Because we've chosen while there's time to show how much we care
Joshua 24:14-15; Matthew 16:24-27; Mark 8:34-38