THREE CROSSES

One Savior of the World,
two criminals,
Three crosses in a row
Up on a hill called Golgotha,
So many years ago.

One cried, “Forgive them, Father,
They know not what they do.”
He died upon that cruel cross,
FOR SIN. For me. For you.

The other cried, “If you are the Messiah,
Just save yourself and us.”
Deriding Christ, he died IN SIN,
breathing his last upon that cross.

Condemned to suffer justly for his deeds,
With fear of God,
the third one made his final cries,
“Oh, Jesus, please remember me.”
He died TO SIN,
to live with Christ in Paradise.


Karin Ristau