Greater Love

Greater Love

Found on Calvary

Who would have guessed

He’d end up on a tree


They thought, as he raised Lazarus

‘Here Is Our Mighty King!’

They couldn’t recognize

It was in death, we’d be set free


Greater Love 

Who made the blind man see

He opened up hearts, as eyes

Couldn’t understand all they would see


With all this power

Why did he speak of sacrifice?

When demons fled his presence

Why would he need to die?


Greater Love 

That set this prisoner (me) free

A man, broken

Longing to simply be


Free from shame

But that came at a price

Paid by my savior

He, crucified for


Greater Love.


06/03/25

clc


““This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. This I command you, that you love one another.”

John‬ ‭15‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬


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