Go with Christ

My Catholic friends enact the final week of Jesus' life in the form of Stations of the Cross, where the saints participate in prayer and recollection the passion of Jesus. What we have as Presbyterians is not quite as good probably, but we have the sweet words of a hymn that takes us through Jesus' final hours and calls us to live in light of Christ's life, death and resurrection.

Hear these amazing words:

 Go to dark Gethsemane,  ye that feel the tempter's power;   

Your Redeemer's conflict see,  watch with him one bitter hour.   

Turn not from his griefs away;  learn of Jesus Christ to pray.    

See him at the judgment hall,   beaten, bound, reviled arraigned
O the wormwood and the gall!   O the pangs his soul sustained!   
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;   learn of Christ to bear the cross. 

 Calvary's mournful mountain climb;  there, adoring at his feet,  

 Mark that miracle of time,  God's own sacrifice complete.   

"It is finished!" hear him cry;   learn of Jesus Christ to die.   

 Early hasten to the tomb  where they laid his breathless clay;  

 All is solitude and gloom,   Who has taken him away?   

Christ is risen! He meets our eyes;   Savior, teach us so to rise.  

Oh Lord, teach me to remember Jesus, teach me to pray, to bear the cross, to die, to rise.

Amen.