Came across another piece I wrote a long time ago. Kind of appropriate for this time of year. I was thinking about the symbolism of the Easter weekend ... and what it means to really take them on ...
Can you drink the cup?
"Can you drink the cup I drink, or be baptised with the baptism I am baptised with?"
Mark 10:38
Take the water and the towel
If you would follow me ...
And humbly serve your fellow man -
Stoop to meet his need.
Take the bread, this life of mine
Broken for your soul -
A token of the sacrifice
That now will be your role.
Take this cup, my blood poured out
In suffering for you -
And know that in lifting up my cross
You carry my heartache too.
And if these offices you'll take
Despite the pain they bring,
I promise you a crown to share
With me - your Servant King.
"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10:45
