How Great the Cross of Christ

Written in 1997 as a meditation on the cross and its meaning for our lives.  It may be sung to SURSUM CORDA.

1.   How great the cross of Christ, the crucified,

      The throne where Christ our Lord was glorified;

      There, lifted up for all the world to see,

      Christ draws all people to His victory!

2.   How great the cross of Christ, the crucified!

      Our debt of sin was nailed with Him who died;

      Our every wrong the Savior has embraced,

      All cancelled, paid in full—all debt erased.

                                    

3.   How great the cross of Christ, the crucified!

      Pure streams of life flow from His wounded side,

      To plunge the earth beneath that cleansing blood—

      Sin’s highest peaks are covered by this flood.

4.   How great the cross of Christ, the crucified!

      Our path to Paradise was once denied;

      The sword is sheathed to bar the way no more,

      The cross of Christ is now the open door.

5.   How great the cross of Christ, the crucified!

      How great God’s love, how deep and high and wide;

      Love, that foreknew from all eternity

      The cross: the price to rescue you and me!