Through the Cross Restored (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
By God's mercy I am known by Christ's grace redeemed made one with God for all eternity Through the cross ...
By God's mercy I am known by Christ's grace redeemed made one with God for all eternity Through the cross ...
Who Christ is to us maybe less important that who we are to Him to understand our purpose By God's ...
We are his sisters his brothers, family, to Jesus we who walk the mortal coil We are redeemed by the ...
We may wonder when we struggle unable to feel him to sense his presence But we must remember ever to ...
The nature of our existence the worth of our lives in the sacrifice of Christ that he came back to ...
Wandering on the earth unaware of a future until we are washed clean baptized by His blood By His Spirit ...
More than the stuff of clay water within us too by His breath alive able to walk the earth God ...
The reason he came to earth descending as a man walking these humble streets climbing the cross Who we are ...
Christ came for us that defines us worthy holy is the lamb who submitted to the Father Coming to save ...
Something precious each one of us worthy given the gift of life by the sacrifice of Christ Somehow we must ...
Do the people of the world those who are yet strangers see the face of Christ when they look upon ...
No gifts like the Magi not royalty no gold, no spices no fragrant perfume Offering our hands the work to ...
Do we see the rough hands of the fishermen when we look at our hands do we see the scars ...
Do others see love when they look upon us do they see our Savior in the way that we live ...
When we look at our hands do we see the scars of the nails the sacrifice of Christ Do we ...
Watching the fishermen the ones who followed who sought the Messiah who followed the Christ Leaving John, their nets, working ...
Hands that are given offered unto God holy witness to the love in the word Hands that lifted orphans gave ...
The hands of the shepherd the hands of the savior hands of the sacrifice dying for us The hands of ...
Leaving their nets the fish on the shore their families, their homes their lives to that day Going with Jesus ...
Feeling his touch the roughness of his hands the scars from the nails where he was crucified the touch of ...
We think of the fishermen the first disciples their hands doing the work of the church Each of them chosen ...
Hands of the carpenter the hands of Joseph the father of Jesus raising our Savior as his own son Teaching ...
As if wrapped around his neck how awful the realization the millstone of his possessions more than a stumbling block ...
The Rich Man deflated staring at his poverty crushed in the realization that he could not follow Christ there before ...
Silence of despair Knowing he was lost in that instant before Christ that he could not follow the way of ...
Needing to cut loose the cords, the tethers all that binds us here to the earth Let go of our ...
Sad, in our bodies, our hearts so heavy longing to follow yet refusing to let go what we carry that ...
What must it be like the pain of Jesus when we walk away turning our lives from him Knowing the ...
Before the world before Adam, his fall before anything else Christ formed as God's partner the agent of creation the ...
The Christ, of God from the beginning before the earth began living as the Word Descending from heaven drained of ...
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