The way of the Cross means sacrifice

The way of the Cross means sacrifice

As to God you yield your all

To be laid on the altar

the place of death

Where fire will surely fall.

’Tis the way of the Cross

are you willing for this?

What does bearing the Cross mean to you?

You who’ve given yourself

your all to God!

To God are you wholly true?

As the voice of song and prayer we raise

How easy to say

We give all;

Till some rougher cross lies just before

And sterner is duty’s call.

Do you falter then

or

true to death

Just die on the cross in the way

Till the fulness of life from the Living One

Is filling you day by day?

’Tis the plan of life

for you die to live

One with Jesus crucified;

With the life alone to be lived through you

Of the Risen

the Glorified.