Lifted

Lifted up to the end

Led captive by the weak

Angry taunts carefully made

Curses ground in nails.

Fixed upon a patch of land

Pain and sorrow mingle

A mutilated promise hung

Consuming the flame of wisdom.

Watch the soul of grace expire

Power displayed revealed in wonder

Love saluted with surrendered passion

Transmuted in sovereign sacrifice.

(And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. – John 3:14-15)