Here I am send me

They look back in time

Sealed in a picture, held in a moment forever.

I remember their story, their pain

Knowing I will never see them again.

Impressions left and memories made.

Radical love to them displayed

But for a time so brief and fleeting

What can be changed in a single meeting?

With me not much I am just a Man

But encounter HIM because he can

Change it all in a single instant

Bring new life to a heart despondent

He goes with us wherever we go

Leading us against the flow

And ebb of this culture, this world

We can't stop until they've all been told

They have to hear it so who will go?

These perishing people have to know

Who will stand and shout it out

Spreading this hope all about

This world heading to anguish and torment

Whose hearts are hard, remaining dormant

They long for freedom and second birth

They need to know what they are worth

The price that was paid and the blood that was shed

The thorns that were slammed onto his head

The spear that pierced his aching side

While soldiers gambled to divide

His broken clothing bloodied and torn

And the onlookers jeer and scorn

He breathes his last his live is given

No not taken but freely given

The earth shakes the sky turns black

The sin of the world was on his back

The veil is torn and the dead rise up

He has drunk the abominable cup

He drank it all down to the lease

The centurion drops to his knees

Surely this was the son of God

Who descended from heaven and this earth trod

Why didn't he just set himself free?

Call a legion of angels with a single plea

This is the centre of a bigger picture

You need to look at the whole of scripture

This has always been the plan

To save the world through a single man

After Adam screwed it up

And was unable to take that cup

There was never any other way

It had to conclude on that day

The spotless man completely righteous

He is the only one able to clean us

But it isn't over just wait 3 days

And the son of God will return and raise

Death is beaten, swallowed up

Jesus is stronger than that cup

And then he gives his last command

One final single parting demand

You must tell others about my name

So their salvation they might claim

Do not let this price be paid in vein

Tell this world about my name

Wherever you go I'll be with you

That is the promise that I issue

And wherever you go you must tell

That I've made a way to escape from hell

When people meet you they should see me

And they should know that they can be free

Preach it with your mouth your life your thoughts

This life is not mine I have been bought

So get going now to the ends of the earth

Proclaiming the need for second birth

lift the veil from their eyes

Cause if you don't they will die

Never having known there was only one way

Leading to the father on that final day

What is my response to a task that is bigger than the sea?

Here I am LORD ... Please ... Send me.