What was the cup that Jesus drank? why'd he ask God to take it away
What kind of poison did it hold? what price did He have to pay?
He drank it all and He felt it all- he bore for us all of it's blame
Yet man might never understand just what the cup contained!
If you could feel the hell of every war that was ever waged
The starkness and the sting of death that causes the heathen to rage
If you frlt the despair of every slave straining against His chains
Throughout all of history multiplied you might know what the cup contained!
If you could know the horror of every innocent that's ever died
If you could know the damage of every abomination that's been tried
If you knew the heart of the adulterers- their guild and all of their shame
Perhaps you could start to comprehend just what the cup containrd!
If you could know the deceit of every theif and every murderers crime
Or the lonliness of separation from one you'd loved for all time
If you felt the hurt of all the world could you understand so much pain?
Yet Jesus willingly drank the cup though he kew what the cup contained!
The defilement of every woman who has given her body away
The disgrace of every traitor and the hurt of the one betrayed
Yet he drank it all and he felt it all- from eternity it was ordained
God's wrath toward the iniquity of our race was in the cup contained!
He drank it all and He felt it all- he bore for us all of it's blame
Yet man will fail to comprehend just what the cup contained!
7-8-87
Anthony Foster
Copyright 1987 Anthony Foster