His gift is best:
it cost the most,
gives rest, will last
for ever.

Full peace and pardon,
and lifted burden,
fresh start, new heart.
From where?

This gift was priced
the death of Christ:
He paid, he lives,
forgives.

So don’t resist
this therapist –
let him begin
to change you!

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. John 1:10,11

God now Man: the angels sing
the glory of the newborn King;

but then, and now, the world refuses;
– with idle thoughts distracts, confuses.

[How inconvenient to submit,
and so receive the perfect gift.]

But he, who is, and had designed
our world, and all its life,
saw crime, and greed, and hate, and strife,
but came to save —
the Babe, the Man, God’s Word,
to take the guilt repentant sinners
had incurred.

Why?
Glorious Son in heavenly kingdom,
willing to become a human –
how? (a miracle of love) – and why?

A perfect person had to die
to pay the debt and penalty,
provide a pardon, amnesty
for foolish mutineers.

So, come for the pardon, amnesty
for contrite mutineers.

What love! of God to send his Son to die
– for who?
What love! of Christ – oh, Jesus draw men’s hearts
to you!

Spoken truth – delivered ‘Word’:
– its meaning clear, not vague, or blurred.
No longer any need to guess. –
We have life’s manual, no less!

And then he came himself, as man, –
God’s Word as human flesh we scan:
his teaching, actions pure,
his sacrifice secure,
his resurrection sure.

Oh, for calmness in the clamour
to call out to Christ for love:
lonely, leaning, comfort gleaning
in the shove of grabbing greed . . . – surviving
as he feeds my soul  – reviving.