Page 4 - Good News April 2015 paper

Can You Hear

The Echoes?

Can you hear the echoes

of the hammer falling on the wooden Cross?
Can you hear them as the blood flows -
the echoes of the Cross?

Can you hear Him weeping
as the Father turns His Face?
Forsaken by earth and heaven
with the nails and thorns of grace…

And with every hammer blow
God’s work was made complete -
Our sin exchanged for His Righteousness
through willing hands and feet.

Can you feel the crushing weight
of our sin upon His back?
As He hangs in pain and nakedness
while the Roman soldiers laugh...

Can we ever comprehend
that it pleased God to crush His Son?
That through this just injustice
could such a mercy come!

But can you dare imagine
how this wrong could be so right -
Through the echoes of the Cross
His death has brought us life!

Oh, I cannot be silent,
I cannot be still!
What Christ has done for you and me
still echoes from Calvary’s hill…

Can you hear the echoes of the hammer falling
on the wooden Cross?

Can you hear them as His love flows -
the echoes of the Cross!

(K van der Merwe, SW Brown, R Bronniman
© MAR Gospel Music Publishers, The Copyright Company,
Songward Music)