O Judas: It's All About Jesus
O Judas (It's All About Jesus)
There was a man, a fallen man
whose destiny would be perdition.
He was a thief and betrayed his friend.
This we received in our tradition.
A better friend no man could have.
His love revealed, revealed unspoken.
He washed the heel; 'twas lifted up.
He washed it clean - a sign, a token.
A heart was changed; a heart was healed.
The power of love could not be broken.
But something else was going on,
something else, and hardly spoken.
From up on high He came to show
how every man would have to go.
Then going back from this below,
He told his friend he'd help Him go.
Like Job he'd look upon his birth.
A later judge upon his girth,
and lead the sheep of planet earth
to denigrate his life, his worth.
Beelzebub! his friend they called Him.
Now he's been called so much, much more.
He earned his coins - they weren't stolen,
but took them back which Scripture said restore.
Denied himself. Took up his cross.
His life of sin he made his loss,
and losing that for his friend's sake,
he found his life in losing's wake.
Born once again. Below the cross.
His brother/friend he'd made his boss.
Boss to Boss his friend would go
As he looked on from down below.
And looking on he heard Him speak
to her there standing grieved and bleak.
“Behold your son,” he heard Him say.
And with that said, He looked his way.
Three days hence upon the morn,
came Magdalene, her look careworn,
and said they'd taken Him away;
she didn't know where now he lay.
He outran Simon to the tomb,
and he looked in, expecting gloom.
Then Simon came and entered in;
then he did too, the man of sin.
Linen cloth here. Head's napkin there.
But corpse no more lay anywhere.
They'd entered in who were bereaved,
but seeing these he then believed.
After this, when out to sea,
he saw Him standing on the shore,
the man with life forever . . . more,
the man Who's knocking at the door.
Copyright © Gary Hughes | Year Posted 2016
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