On Another Tree

On

This

Christmas

We give God

All of the praise

For His great Gift.

We

Give Him thanks

For the coming of Jesus

And for our souls he did lift.

As

We gaze at the Christmas tree

And

Its lights of yellow, red and green

May we all be reminiscent of another tree,

Of

That cruel cross that stood there at Calvary.

From that tree hung our Saviour, God’s only begotten.

In

Him

Slain before the foundation of the world, we are forgiven

Through the blood that flowed from His body that was riven

For

Our

Sin

Jesus, God’s Son died,

In him we have life

But his salvation

Is to be applied.

In the cross of Christ we glory

Is the message of the Christmas story.

Stewart Russell © 2016