The Image of the Crucified

Look at the cross
Be driven to your knees
Look to the cross
Fall on your face
There at the cross
All your enemies
Are defeated by Your grace
Here in this holy place

Look to the cross
Fall at the cross
Cling to the cross
Come to the cross.

The image of the crucified
Will change the way you see
Your joys and your strength abide
In the broken one of Calvary
The image of the crucified
Invalidates the view
All earthly notions of success
Are transformed by the word
That we confess

Uncircumcised hearts
Uncircumcised ears
They haven't got a clue
The last will be first
And the first shall be last
All who hunger and thirst
He will break their holy fast

Lord our spirits receive
As we turn and believe
As we repent of our sin
New life will begin
Scatter us to the wind
Move us out unto your end
Salt and light and seed is hurled
To dare to differ with the world.

Anthony Foster
July 28, 2007