Good Friday Thoughts and Hymns

Today is Good Friday, and Thomas Road Baptist Church hosted a prayer and communion event in which folks could come, pray, and participate in communion as we meditated on the events that transpired on this day some 2000 years ago. As I thought back to that horrible day we like to call "Good Friday," two songs came to my mind. I spoke them as prayers or meditations to Jesus as I sat with the cup and the bread and thought of his sacrifice. I looked with shame and pity on his wounds, I cried at the thought of my sin causing such destruction, and I marveled at the idea that the offended party would take the place of the offender in dealing with human sin! What a Savior! What a God!

As you prepare for Easter this weekend and the glorious celebration of our Lord's resurrection. Take a few minutes today to think about all that transpired on this "Good Friday." Remember that on this day, Jesus shed his blood so that we may be God's sons and daughters. Read the words below, and thank God for his amazing gift and grace!

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

1. O sacred Head, now wounded,
with grief and shame weighed down,
now scornfully surrounded
with thorns, thine only crown:
how pale thou art with anguish,
with sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish
which once was bright as morn!

2. What thou, my Lord, has suffered
was all for sinners' gain;
mine, mine was the transgression,
but thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior!
'Tis I deserve thy place;
look on me with thy favor,
bestow to me thy grace.

3. What language shall I borrow
to thank thee, dearest friend,
for this thy dying sorrow,
thy pity without end?
O make me thine forever;
and should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
outlive my love for thee.

It Was My Sin

1. See the God of Glory giving up His Son
See the awesome depth of love in all that He has done
See the tiny baby on the hay so still
See Him take the cross and climb up Calvary’s lonely hill
That hill

Chorus:
It was my sin that nailed him there
It was my cross He had to bear
It was His blood that washed me clean
It was the greatest love this world has seen
He died for me
He washed me clean
I am redeemed
Worship the King

2. Hear the groaning thunder, feel the falling rain
See the King of Glory bear unbearable pain
Dying brokenhearted, Himself He would not save
See the King who died for me now risen from the grave
My grave

Chorus:
It was my sin that nailed You there
It was my cross You had to bear
Your precious blood has washed me clean
No greater love has this world ever seen
You died for meYou washed me clean
I am redeemed
Worship the King

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