CROSS OF LOVE!

Cross of Love Blood and sorrow flow from the languid brow of Jesus dying;

and tears from Heaven's eyes are the anguished drops of a Father crying,

"Oh, why?"

This must be a cross of love for

God to bruise His only Son.

Jesus, what a sacrifice to reach us,

it had to be a cross of love!

Emblem of his pain, oh splintered wood of my transgression

I'll never comprehend how an act so great gave love expression--

"Oh, why?"

This must be a cross of love for

God to bruise His only Son.

Jesus, what a sacrifice to reach us,

it had to be a cross of love!

And the people jeered at Him and mocked His holy name,

for they knew not who He was, nor why it was He came.

Some had come to offer help to soothe a mother's pain,

but as she watched her wounded Son, the comfort never came,

Oh, why?

This must be a cross of love for

God to bruise His only Son.

Jesus, what a sacrifice to reach us,

it had to be a cross of love!