The Cross You Bear (Spoken Word) [feat. Davy Flowers]

Afflicted
Stripped of every semblance of Your beauty
You were despised and rejected
On the darkest day that history has ever known
With eyes of fire fixed on Your own
You entered into the brokenness of this world
And served us with Your suffering

Stood in the gap, making intercession with Your agony
Laid Your own body on the altar as the offering
Like a lamb being led to its slaughtering
Like a son submitting to the will of his father joyfully

You were altogether God and yet altogether man
Enrobed in garments of flesh and still absolutely
And definitively other than

You are the embodiment of righteousness
The essence of holiness
The presence of purity
The very power of God
Contained within the limitations of a human frame
Your precious name, defamed as they disfigure your face
Bruise Your body and break Your soul

But to make us whole
You endured every blow until it was finished

Jesus The righteous Sun
Meant to shine on us died for us
A death too wicked for One who was innocent

You were beaten and breathless
Silent and helpless
Wounded for transgressions
A victim of undeserved oppression

Bludgeoned to the point of no recognition
Bearing in Your very own body the burden
Of our sin and the Father's indignation

This cross this crown these nails and this robe
Each blow sufficiently absorbing the debt that we owe
All so that we could know and be known
By the One who created us to be fulfilled and satisfied
In Him alone

The King of glory abiding in the trenches
With the enemies of God
Robed in reproach and robbed of honor
You take lashes You didn't earn
You drink a cup you don't deserve

But as whip and lash intend to break You
You cannot be broken
For You are stronger than the cross You bear