Because You Loved Me

You could have said no,
But because You loved me,
You said yes!
 
Unlovable as I was,
The sinner that I was,
You said yes to humiliation.
 
And the rage of the devil,
Wrapped up 
In the iron-clad might of Rome
You confronted with dignity.
 
Tortured and brutalized,
Just to make me free
You wouldn't turn back.
 
Like taut barbed wire,
The whips tore through your flesh
Ripping off pieces of tender flesh
Only so that I would have life,
You said yes.
 
Your Father turned His back on You,
But You wouldn't turn back,
Even as you cried out from deep within:
'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?'
 
Thank you Jesus,
You said yes for you loved me...
(c) P. Chidavaenzi, 2010