“Don't have to be ashamed,
Don't have to hang my head, shoulder the blame,
Wondering if my life's been in vain,
Oh, I don't have to be ashamed.
You did that for me,
Hey, you did that for me,
You wore the chains so I could be free, yeah,
You did that for me.
Man of sorrows, well-acquainted with grief,
Dragged to the city dump, spread-eagle on a cross beam,
Propped up like a scarecrow and nailed like a thief,
There for all the world to see.
You did that for me,
Yeah, you did that for me,
Oh, you wore the chains so I could be free, yeah,
You did that for me,
Oh, you did that for me”
- From You Did That For Me by Pierce Pettis
Another lyric for Holy Week. Pierce Pettis is an amazing writer of the devotional. Music has the ability to theologize but it also has this ability to speak not so much in intellectual terms to the brain as in spiritual terms to the soul. Pettis has had twenty five year career of touching deep into the soul with beautifully written songs of Christian truth; not just creedal truth but truth to be experienced. A reading of Isaiah 53 would be a good companion to this song as we journey through Holy Week.
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