JESUS SAID

“Foxes haves holes; birds have nests.”

But The Son of Man has not!

Has not a place to lay His head,

Though in need weary oft!

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I left my home in heaven above!

Took on a servants strain

To lift, to serve, what then?  To die?

A God for sinners slain!

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I knew no sin though tempted strong!

As Man I suffered loss!

Then as Christ for sinners slain!

Troubled oft tempest tossed!

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“Peace, be still,” for storm and wave.

The elements obeyed!

Man alone with stubborn will,

Resists then sore dismayed!

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Humbled some have come to Me,

To resist no more.

Submitted then to cruel death

To bring some safe to shore.

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For I so loved this hell-bent world…

The crucifixion scene

Became a grim reality not

Just a dreaded dream.

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I did my utmost, not up to you!

Your deal must accept!

What I have done for all mankind

Personalize this concept!

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Just accept as simple as that.

Accepting My death as your own!

Dies as a sinner, (sins punishment!

I took it alone!)

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(Jesus speaking)

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by Sam Cox a sinner 11.06.10

THE ONLY SINLESS ONE

I was far from God, myself, but He always stayed close to me.

I know it now but way back then it just did not seem to be.

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Though I often wondered why men around me dropped like flies

While each and every skirmish found me fit.  Sure, I wondered why!

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Close calls many, many and often enough so I could see,

Now I see it so much later that God had His Hand on me!

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But the others, way too many, killed or wounded, did God care?

Screaming, dying!  But crucifixion!  Now just ask me, did He share?

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Yes, He suffered, agonizing!  Cannot you sense the pain He bore?

Writhing!  Yes, a slow death, dying!  Look, now see the nails that tore!

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Crown of thorns they pressed down on Him, hid His face with bloody gore!

Mary, weeping, cries out weakly in her anguish, “Please, no more!”

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Jesus, gasping, joins together, “Mother, Son,” they loved the most!

Then as if to cease her torture breathes His last, gave up the ghost!

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For me!  Yes, for me He suffered!  Must I share His agony?

To a bloody pulp they lashed Him.  Then they hung Him on that tree!

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Lost a lot of weight in combat, suffered some, but you do, too!

Cannot compare with His grim anguish which He bore for me and you.

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Sure we think we suffer torment for our own sins!  Yes, it is true!

But sinless, He, our tortured Savior, what He suffered very few—

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Could ever experience!  For such love we cannot know.

Unless we, for sins of others, willingly to our death go.

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He alone is sinless!  He alone could qualify!

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S H Cox 11.148.05

HOW GREAT HIS LOVE

My Jesus, I love you.

I do clearly see

Your love for me proven

In dying for me!

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As though You were showing

All those who stood by,

Your nature was truly

“True God”,” I must die!”

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So impressed was Saint Peter

Deserving his crown,

Declared His crucifixion

On his cross upside down!

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Unworthy his feeling

A heart of pure gold!

The pain that he suffered

Though it was never retold.

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No comparison here,

Just a mention to show

Where true love for the Master

Would prompt one to go!

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True coward!  Am I when

Confronted with pain!

“Oh, God!”  I would cry out,

“Please help me remain!”

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Yes!  The nearness of God’s

Holy Spirit, I would plead!

In my own strength I would falter,

This I would truly concede!

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But the suffering Savior,

Just a lifetime of grief!

Consummated on Calvary!

Would you call that relief?

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Aside from the knowledge

Of what must be done

To bring forth salvation

To sinners each one!

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Aside from that knowledge

There would be no cross

Jesus safe in His kingdom

Yes, we would all suffer loss!

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But He suffered loss!  How great His love!

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S.H.C. 5.31.05

DIVINE DIALOGUE

Keep in touch with Jesus,

See Him on the throne.

God the Father, stands by

While God the Son leaves home.

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God the Son descending

Planet earth, His aim,

To live and die for sinners

Yes, that is why He came.

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“I made those people,” God said

“It is true,” said the Son,

If not for Lucifer, they

Would be safe everyone!

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“I will go.  Assume sins wages.

I will die for their sins!”

Then God the Father trembled

The Heavens shook within!

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Become human?  Bad enough!

But to face Satan, too?

It is true.  Jesus answered,

“This I will do!”

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“Yes, I know,” said the Father,

As He sadly looked away!

Gabriel knew the enemy

And prepared for the fray!

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An unseen shield was spread

Over Mother and Child!

The Holy Child grew safely

From all sin undefiled!

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“Yes, I know you!” Satan smiled.

The wilderness was bleak.

Full forty days he had fasted

And sleepless, He was weak!

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“Make bread of these stones,”

Devil growled, knew he was failing.

Tormented, Jesus cried out,

“Be done with this assailing!”

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Jesus knew it was not over

The temptations would not end!

His last trick, crucifixion!

With this Christ must contend!

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But the end was the beginning!

His resurrection gained

Salvation for believers!

And cleansing from sins stain!

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Hallelujah!  Christ arose!

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Sam Cox 5.7.05

SHADOW OF THE CROSS

Can you see Jesus’ shadow out there?

Forming a cross on the sod?

Think He knew that He would suffer and die?

For every man’s sins, as God?

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Suppose that this boy growing up,

Sensed that His freedom to live

Would be curtailed in His prime,

With nothing at all to give?

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Think that as He fed multitudes,

The thousands seated out there,

He knew before that crucifixion,

Would shorten His life so fair?

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Would temptation to flee such suffering,

His human right contained,

Like overthrew the prophecy,

So that man in sin remained.

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Would a loving God succumb to such

Temptation?  Think, humanity,

Lose self in some deserted cave?

Forget about you and me?

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The Savior’s ever consuming love,

Would not be constrained!

Or cause any forgetfulness,

Suspect to a Savior’s name!

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He came to save us!  Carry our sins,

All of them!  To that hanging!

Can such fortitude again be found,

By spikes, holding there dangling?

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I think not!  Till the death, finally!

Brings a sighing end

Continuous!  Suffering!  Such

To make other human bend!

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But did He bend, give in, to sin?

We all know, He did not!

Savoir of all people!  Sinless I see!

No sin could ever blot!

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Sinless!  So that He could forgive!

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the Sam 07.29.13

CROSS – THE ANSWER

My God, You are so wonderful to me!

You are wonderful and I see,

Creator God and lover of a  !

And ruling in Majesty!

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But despised and hated, Satan’s first cause.

Christ, rejected by men

Crucified, died in agony!

Still our Savior when…

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Once accepted and leave Devils Den,

Saved!  For Eternity

Devil is angered!  And we rejoice!

Each day, forever FREE!

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Your beauty exceeds all the Angels,

Reflected in all you have made!

That everlasting sky!  Gorgeous flowers!

Resting in evening shade!

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Crystal pools from waterfalls fed!

Rocks made smooth by all

The water falling, weather beaten.

Yes, I hear the call!

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Call of the weathered, stronger because

Of toughening storms of life.

As man, Jesus, stronger through trials,

Sleepless, praying through strife!

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And truly dread through Eternity of

The life you would have to lead.

Suffering and crucifixion

Laughed!  As they watched you bleed!

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Crucified GOD!  Hard to reconcile,

Their maker, loving, true!

Still He cried out, “Father, forgive them,

They know NOT what they do!”

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Ever since Adam and Eve disobeyed,

Reflection of Satan’s place.

Cross only answer to sinfulness.

And Heaven’s Eternal Grace!

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gratefully, the Sam 01.08.13

A CRUCIFIED FRIEND

Nearer heaven now, sin no longer attracts!

Is that what aging is about?

Out living desire to do the wrong things

Consideration to doubt!

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Of course not!  It is not the normal way,

True believer I claimed!

Preaching the Gospel for 35 years,

True I had doubts that shamed!

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Did those Disciples, Christ’s followers,

Ever doubt Christ’s claims?

Many miracles!  Were they believing or

Were they sometime ashamed–

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To admit to doubts, of course, it is natural!

But still we remain true!

From a small boy’s lunch the miracle

Of course!  Natural thing to do!

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Crucifixion, one disciple and Mary,

His mother there observed!

The  horror!  Suffering between two thieves,

But absent as though Christ deserved–

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No better.  Matthew back to collecting taxes

From already oppressed,

Rest of them sure all, except the beloved

John and the Mary, sore distressed.

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 Mourning there by that horrible cross

Suffering as none other could!

For hours dangling there by just nails!

As only criminals should.

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Then one criminal like to gladden the heart

Of Savior, “Remember me when…”

Oh, yes!  This day with Me in Paradise!

Savior, the criminal, be-friend!

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Also, this ole’ boy, very soon Spirited,

Of course, with body glorified,

Of course, no idea when but the where?

In the new life magnified!

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Ole’ Sam 03.05.12