We just got through the Easter season and I am so grateful for my praise team and the fact that they sang a song I have been wanting to sing for a while. "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" has long been one of those songs that I love to hear and sing and get so few opportunities to do so. I wanted to share the lyrics here for your consideration.
O sacred head now wounded
With grief and shame way down,
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns thine only crown,
How art thou pale with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn.
How does that visage languish,
Which once was bright as morn.
What thou, my Lord, hast suffered
was all for sinners’ gain.
Mine, mine was the transgression,
but thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior!
’Tis I deserve thy place.
Look on me with thy favor,
and grant to me thy grace.
What language shall i borrow
To thank thee dearest friend?
For this, thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end.
O make me thine forever,
And should i fainting be,
Lord, let me never, ever
Outlive my love to thee.
When thinking about these lyrics the one thing that I keep coming back to is the fact that Jesus took my place and died the death that I should have died due to my sin. Instead, He took the pain for me. Take a moment today and say thank you!
