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THE ULTIMATE VALENTINE
There's something so much more to love  than sugar-filled candy hearts and sentimental writings  found on lacy parchment cards.
 
There's something so much more to love  than the ode of a sweet love song, and there's more to love  than the ones I've loved my whole life long.
 
You see . . . before I  even   knew  of love, before I was physically conceived, before I ever drew one single breath, His Love was poured out for me.
 
This  One took the punishment I deserved; He was innocent, but oh how He loved me. Flogged with a whip made of jagged, sharp bones, though  I  was the one who was guilty.
 
And the thorns pierced His head so deeply, this wicked device called a crown, an attempt to humiliate and defeat Him, yet He uttered not one hateful sound.
 
The soles of His feet became gashed & torn. Splinters buried deep in his flesh. His shoulders rubbed raw by the weight of the wood ~ the vehicle by which He’d meet death.
 
So tired and weak, His legs trembled and His knees buckled under the strain. As He fell to the ground, the people just laughed; how much they enjoyed seeing His pain.
 
With effort He rose to continue on and came to the place where He’d die. Quietly He lay down on the rough wooden cross, as His ankles and wrists were then tied.
 
With eyes tightly closed, He knew the next step; the weight of the hammer released and the nails ripped into His delicate flesh, bones splaying in His hands and His feet.
 
With a jolt, the cross raised harshly upward, there Jesus hung naked before men. Though they spat and they mocked and they laughed and they jeered . . . with love He looked down & forgave them.
 
After hours of torment, the time had arrived ~ the moment for Mercy to meet Truth. But just before giving His Spirit to God, He whispered “For you, child. All  for you.”
 
He pressed onward in pain; never to give up; through it all, it was me on His mind. For even back then, He considered me His child; He loved me and gave me His life.
 
The  ultimate  valentine . . . my sweet savior, Jesus Christ. “ We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
LYRICS FOR THE LORD Cheri Henderson,  http://hometown.aol.com/cheri144/myhomepage/poetry.html PHOTOS:  www.ThePassionoftheChrist.com MUSIC:  Michael W. Smith, “Freedom Battle” – Freedom CD

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The Ultimate Valentine

  • 2. There's something so much more to love than sugar-filled candy hearts and sentimental writings found on lacy parchment cards.
  • 3.  
  • 4. There's something so much more to love than the ode of a sweet love song, and there's more to love than the ones I've loved my whole life long.
  • 5.  
  • 6. You see . . . before I even knew of love, before I was physically conceived, before I ever drew one single breath, His Love was poured out for me.
  • 7.  
  • 8. This One took the punishment I deserved; He was innocent, but oh how He loved me. Flogged with a whip made of jagged, sharp bones, though I was the one who was guilty.
  • 9.  
  • 10. And the thorns pierced His head so deeply, this wicked device called a crown, an attempt to humiliate and defeat Him, yet He uttered not one hateful sound.
  • 11.  
  • 12. The soles of His feet became gashed & torn. Splinters buried deep in his flesh. His shoulders rubbed raw by the weight of the wood ~ the vehicle by which He’d meet death.
  • 13.  
  • 14. So tired and weak, His legs trembled and His knees buckled under the strain. As He fell to the ground, the people just laughed; how much they enjoyed seeing His pain.
  • 15.  
  • 16. With effort He rose to continue on and came to the place where He’d die. Quietly He lay down on the rough wooden cross, as His ankles and wrists were then tied.
  • 17.  
  • 18. With eyes tightly closed, He knew the next step; the weight of the hammer released and the nails ripped into His delicate flesh, bones splaying in His hands and His feet.
  • 19.  
  • 20. With a jolt, the cross raised harshly upward, there Jesus hung naked before men. Though they spat and they mocked and they laughed and they jeered . . . with love He looked down & forgave them.
  • 21.  
  • 22. After hours of torment, the time had arrived ~ the moment for Mercy to meet Truth. But just before giving His Spirit to God, He whispered “For you, child. All for you.”
  • 23.  
  • 24. He pressed onward in pain; never to give up; through it all, it was me on His mind. For even back then, He considered me His child; He loved me and gave me His life.
  • 25.  
  • 26. The ultimate valentine . . . my sweet savior, Jesus Christ. “ We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
  • 27. LYRICS FOR THE LORD Cheri Henderson, http://hometown.aol.com/cheri144/myhomepage/poetry.html PHOTOS: www.ThePassionoftheChrist.com MUSIC: Michael W. Smith, “Freedom Battle” – Freedom CD