All For me

Lord I can never comprehend the agony that you went through for me
Here during your time on earth as a Man of sorrows.
You were so despised and rejected by man but
You did it all for me because you loved me.

Oh Lord sometimes I just can’t bear to think of it at all,
You on your way to the cross,
I think of how they stripped you, mocked you and humiliated you
I think of how they laughed and spat in your face
As they put a crown of thorns on you

You would not even speak a word to defend yourself when they falsely accused you.
Thirty-nine times they whipped you like a criminal for a crime that I had committed
The thirty-nine lashes left deep stripes in your back yet you silently took it all
And even went on to carry your cross on your wounded bleeding back.

On that cross you were so lonely, rejected, helpless and thirsty, yet you took it all.
It was your wonderful love for me that drove you to that cross in the first place.
You took all that disgrace for me and bore my pain and shame for me and even bled from your brow because you loved me.

Your love proved to be even stronger than death because today you still live.
And I live because you took it all for me.
You washed my sins away with your blood and gave me eternal life.




Written in 2002 by Tafadzwa Lillian Gotora