Thursday, April 5, 2012

Poem: Servant's Song (Maundy Thursday)


Servant's Song 
(Melody:  Morning Star,  Lutheran Service Book # 400, 
Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Morning)


Come and behold Him, our Lord and our Savior,
Down on His knees with their feet in His hands,
Why has our God, our Salvation, our Creator
Humbled Himself, in the servant's place now stand?

Could His example be for our learning?
Could He be showing the way that we should live?
Are we like Judas with eyes and hearts now turning
To earthly treasures and from the life He gives?

Short is the meal that they share in celebration,
Soon swords and clubs will meet Him in the night,
Then those He loves will without hesitation
Shatter their promise and for their lives take flight.

Grant that I'd choose to stand with You Jesus,
To be a servant, to walk the way You've shown,
To live a life that You and the Father pleases,
Know Your example and make it my own.

Where I have failed to live as You have called me,
All of the ways I’ve betrayed You and Your will,
Let me find peace in the grace that You give freely,
Pardon and joy in Your precious Holy Meal.

Come and behold Him, the God of all Creation,
Present in ways that we cannot comprehend,
Eat of the body pierced for your salvation
And drink the blood that for you He has shed.




(c) Rev. Mark A. Wood

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