Hands

by R. Darke, Victoria, B.C., Canada | Category: General | Aug 1995

Hands! Olive-skinned and gentle,

Bearing marks no doubt of daily toil;

Took a cruse and broke it

To cover One she loved with precious oil (Mark 14:3-9)

Hands! divine, which took and blessed

The bread and wine;

Telling of his love, forgiveness, liberty,

By His dying, crushed and bleeding on the tree (Luke 22:19-20)

Hands! Hard-skinned, mannish, strong,

Grasping, greedy, they belong

To Judas counting silver, thirty pieces for a slave,

To betray the one who came to save (Mat. 16:14-16)

Hands! Coarse, rough-hewn, holding sword and stave;

This gives courage to a mob of men, depraved,

Who came to seize by lighted lamp

The One they later led without the camp (Mat. 27:31)

Hands! Of Peter, fisherman, hands so strong,

Fingers sinewed, toughened long,

From holding nets; now outstretched before the fires of men

Soon he cries: 'I know Him not! ', again, again, again (John 18:17;25,17)

Hands! We see now that receive Him

Are from Israel's highest court;

Sanhedrin's officers blindfold Him,

Smite Him, spit at Him, make sport (Mat. 26:57-68)

Hands! Of God the Father raise to smite

The One who pleased Him well; reluctant Hands,

But blows must fall upon the Shepherd's Head,

And sheep be scattered till He's risen from the dead (Mat 26:31)

Hands of beauty, love, we see,

Pierced and bleeding on the tree;

Bound with iron? Nat, love and mercy,

This He did for you and me (Gal. 2:20)

What of my hands, unmarked, empty?

I will use them Lord for Thee.

This my answer to Love's pleading,

What will you now do for Me? (2 Cor. 8:5)

R. Darke, Victoria, B.C., Canada | Aug 1995
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