This week’s hymn is another of Keith and Kristyn Getty’s hymns. This one emphasises both kinds of  reconcilation that comes from the cross. On the cross, Christ reconciled God and the sinner, but he also the reconciled forgiven sinners with each other.

Beneath the Cross of Jesus 

Beneath the cross of Jesus
I find a place to stand,
And wonder at such mercy
That calls me as I am;
For hands that should discard me
Hold wounds which tell me, “Come.”
Beneath the cross of Jesus
My unworthy soul is won.

Beneath the cross of Jesus
His family is my own—
Once strangers chasing selfish dreams,
Now one through grace alone.
How could I now dishonor
The ones that You have loved?
Beneath the cross of Jesus
See the children called by God.

Beneath the cross of Jesus—
The path before the crown—
We follow in His footsteps
Where promised hope is found.
How great the joy before us
To be His perfect bride;
Beneath the cross of Jesus
We will gladly live our lives.

More on the reconciliation of forgiven children with each other:

• Purposes of Christ’s Death, No. 6
  

• Jesus Christ My Sure Defense at joythruChrist
  
• The Fifth Sunday in Lent at Magic Statistics
• Advent Tells Us Christ Is Near at The Happy Wonderer
• How Sweet and Awful Is the Place at Hiraeth
  
• When I Survery the Wondrous Cross at Seasoning of the Heart
• Poor, Weak and Worthless Though I Am at Whatever Things…
• Fountain of Never Ceasing Grace at Field Stone Cottage
• If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee at Fish and Cans
• Lord’s Day 10, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian