Bow before the wondrous Cross come seek His mercies there Share with Him your deepest thoughts and cast on Him your cares ~ Give to Him all your worries leave them at His feet, For He will take away your sins and make your life complete. Open your heart to His love and feel His river flow Let His cleansing waters wash your soul whiter than snow ~ Emmerse yourself within His grace and seek His glory there, His love for us is so immense to which nothing can compare. Don't worry about tomorrow or what the future holds For God has a plan for your life that will carefully unfold ~ He will guide you safely into His promised land All you have to do is Trust and leave it in His hands. No one is truly perfect we all make our mistakes But God still loves us anyway and He will not forsake ~ Remember King David's story a man after God's own heart He served the Lord but he still sinned and he grieved within his Psalms. God loves and forgives us anyway no matter what we've done But we must come before the Cross each day and repent before His Son ~ Jesus will wash us of our sins and we will not be denied, He paid the price for us then when He was crucified. So as we seek blessed assurance these burdens that we bear We humbly leave before the Cross and with Him we come to share ~ All our worries and our hurts and He will take away Every heartache, every sin, as we seek Him there today. Glory, glory to our God we bow before Your name, The precious blood of your Son has cleansed our souls again ~ Wonderful counsellor, Almighty God, thank You for the Cross Because Jesus took away my sins I am no longer "lost". There's power in His precious blood isn't that a wonderful thing? He paid the price for you and me when He died for our sins ~ Imagine a love so immense that He gave up His life So we may share in His Kingdom in eternal paradise. Humbly come before the Cross and seek His loving grace Share with Him all the fears in the comfort of His embrace ~ Open the eyes of our hearts that we may truly see The love that Jesus has for us, 'cause He died for you and me. Bow before the rugged Cross that stands within our hearts Upon which is the One who has those precious nail scars ~ Seek the mercies of His love cast on Him your cares, And remember no matter what you've done He will still ALWAYS be there. © Christina 2nd April, 2003

"I had originally called this poem "He Died for Our Sins Upon the Cross", which is also a fitting title....but I think this title aptly parallels the essence of the message within these lines.   "The Wondrous Promise of the Cross" couldn't be more accurate.   God gave us a wonderful promise with the Cross, so that we may have New Life and a glorious gift in Him!   That we may stand before Him in His awesome presence and share with Him all our hopes, fears, thoughts, dreams, hurts, pains, heartaches, sins, happiness, joys and so forth is a glorious thing!   And it is all because Jesus died for us on the Cross.   To stand before Him and confess our sins, and know that He will take them away and throw them in the sea of forgetfulness (Micah 7:19) as far as the east is to the west He will remember them no more. (Psalm 103:12)!   To know that is how much He loves us.   We are all sinners who have fallen short of the glory of God, but God has given us a way that we may redeem ourselves before Him, so that we may not perish but have everlasting Life.
I draw a parallel to King David, one of the Bible's most well-known men.   King David was a man after God's own heart.   He sought God faithfully as a child, and was anointed King in Saul's place when still only a young shepherd boy.   But David was also a man, and men sin.   One of David's greatest sins was that of with Bathsheba, a woman whom he had seen bathing on her balcony one evening.   He desired her, he lusted for her and he slept with her.   After making necessary inquiries, he discovered that her husband was off fighting in David's army, so he instructed that he be placed in the front lines and he was killed.   David then married Bathsheba.   This disappointed God, and therefore as punishment for his sin and adultery David and Bathsheba's firstborn was to die....and after a week or so of his birth, he did so.   We know that although he was a man after God's own heart, David still loved and yearned for God.   We see his grief and we feel it ourselves.   Just as poetry is one of the greatest forms of therapuetic expression, so the Psalms David wrote were a song unto God and an expression of his grief and pain as well.   No matter what we have done in our lives, none of us are unworthy of God's loving grace and everlasting love.   That is the essence of the wondrous promise of the Cross, and every day we come before it and confess our sins and hurts, and He will take them away.   He will bear that load for us; He will carry us.   We only have to trust Him and leave it at the foot of the Cross ~ it is safely in His hands.
And THAT is His promise."