The Blood
They found Him in a manger low the way the angel said
This precious little Baby upon which His mother bled
This Gift for all humanity with blood upon His skin
Ordained by God the Father as the Saviour from our sin
To be the Lamb of sacrifice this precious little Child
The mighty King of Israel this Baby meek and mild
Fulfilling all the prophesies the way the scriptures said
The Light of Life to all the world on which His mother bled
And then He grew through days of grief and turmoil all around
Among a people who had once been led through hallowed ground
Who once had been anointed to be priests and kings of earth
A title God had given them through Abraham since birth
But as the ones before them they had turned away from Him
Who gave them illustration of the Gift He had for them
Through daily rounds of sacrifice to illustrate the way
His Son was to be sacrificed that crucifixion day
Not on a cross of cruelty but by a priestly hand
Upon the altar as the Lord had shown them in His plan
The very One whom they must kill to die that they might live
Designed and told them of the Gift that He would come to give
But hardness in their sinful hearts allowed them not to see
The One Who stood before them was in fact Divinity
And when they had the chance to share the beauty of God's plan
They fell again to grasp the will and ways of godless man
The will that would not listen to the words God shared with them
The words that held the light of life to lead them back to Him
And ways of their confusion that would choose a sinful man
To represent their nation not the Way that God had planned
But this time when the blood was there upon our Saviour's skin
The blood was His that He had bled to save us from our sin
The blood of His Own sacrifice that He would bleed for us
Who see Him as the only One in Whom to put our trust
That He might place upon us as the cleansing from our sin
To make us one through second birth that we might start again
As children washed and purified by Christ's blood to atone
That He by His amazing grace can claim us as His Own
Luke 2:7-16; John 3:3-7; 1 John 1:5-7
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