Tomorrow being Good Friday, I thought it would be appropriate to blog about one of my Top 10 all-time favourite songs which speaks about the greatest act of love that ever was, is and is to be.
The Creator God giving up His life for His creation.
In an earlier blog entry, I had mentioned what my all-time Top 10 Christian rock/pop songs are. Just to recap, they are:
01. Jesus Freak - DC Talk
02. Take Me To Your Leader - Newsboys
03. More Sold Out - Whiteheart
04. I Am On The Rock - Petra
05. (Never Gonna Be As) Big As Jesus -Audio Adrenaline
06. Little Drummer - Jars of Clay
07. To Hell With The Devil - Stryper
08. Original Superman - Pillar
09. All For You - JONAH33
10. Alive - POD
The song at number 9 is by a four-piece band JONAH33. They hail from Arkansas in USA.
They get their name from Jonah 3:3, "Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Ninevah". It is a kind of mission statement that they will go any where He leads.Their music borders on heavy rock, but their lyrics are unapologetically bold.
Someone decided to make a video using the lyrics of this song and images from Mel Gibson's "Passion of The Christ".
This never fails to bring me to tears as I reflect and realise that He did it all for us. He gave up the comforts of heaven to empty Himself.
Thank you LORD Jesus Christ for doing it all for us. You are the original superman (speaking of which is the song at #8, and I will blog about this in a later entry).
His time with them had stopped,
It's time for Him to carry out His father's will,
Is that He drink this cup
He's told them all along that He would go,
They could not follow Him
But He'll be back for them my friend
And now He sweats these drops of blood
And He prays take this cup from me
But He knows there's no other way
His father's will is that He take your sin, your shame,
Your place upon that cross of pain And die for you
[PRE-CHORUS:]
There's no way to repay
All the pain He went through for you
His reason: simply His love
It's time to see the truth
And understand there's nothing you can do
His reason was simply you
[CHORUS:]
It was all for, it was all for you
He bled and He died for you
We live by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ
Who died to set us free
From chains our flesh can give
You know that even if you were the only one He died for
That means only your sins drove the nails
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS (2x)]
No time to hesitate my friend
No time to second guess His love
There's nothing else that you can do
He already gave it all for you
All for you, all for you, all for you
Simply you
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