easter, more than just eggs

The Ransom
by the Tall Guy

Today I paid your ransom.
Today I put your burden onto me.
I will always love you forever
So today, please choose to be free.

Today I paid the price
for your ransom you see
So now you are free to choose
that a slave you’ll no longer be.

The Penalty has been Paid.
The foundation for your freedom has been laid.
What will your future bring?
What kind of songs will your heart sing?

Songs of True Love?
Songs of True Hope for Tomorrow?
Songs of Joy?
Or the Sad Songs of Sorrow?

Where is your path?
What path do you seek?
What path will you follow?
Your destiny, what will it be?

To suffer continuing slavery to addictions,
Is this the path you will choose?
For destructive self indulgent pleasures
All your freedoms will you loose?

What will be the price for your soul?
Will it be sold for mere Silver or Gold?
Or will you seek for the light
and choose to do right?

Will you seize the day?
Take responsibility for yourself?
Or, will you continue to blame others
As you squander and mock their help?

Will your life be lived well?
How far will you go?
After goodness or evil?
What are the seeds you will sow?

It’s still all up to you,
as it always has been,
You can choose to remain in hell,
or you can break free from your sin.

You have all the power
because you have the choice.
So please pray to Our Father in Heaven.
Pray with all your heart, soul, and voice.

You are a part of my heart.
You are a part of my soul.
Because of my love for you
your ransom is no more.

This is the song and promise of the One.
The One who loves us ever more.
He is the One
who seeks to heal our terrible sores.

There was a time,
long before time ever began,
Where one who is most evil,
Sought to bind us all slaves unto him.

By him there would be no hope,
No Joy, No Sorrow, No Sin.
By him there would be no Freedom,
for we would be in eternal bondage to him.

But there is one other
the one who truly loves us still.
He offered himself, as a martyr.
He offered himself to be killed.

To pay the required price of ransom.
To save us from our sins.
As our beloved older brother, and Savior,
He is truly our next of kin.

So we chose on that day,
that day long before time began,
We chose the path we would follow.
We pledged our life and souls unto him.

But the evil one was so disappointed.
So in his selfish wrath he swore
Eternal Death and certain Destruction
to those who would dare seek for more.

His existence will never be happy.
He seeks only to destroy.
His pretended love for us poor sinners
is merely a devilish ploy.

He seeks to enslave us in darkness
He seeks to keep us from the Truth.
He seeks to exploit us in our weakness.
Our suffering he will never remove.

But the One who loves us still
He holds out to us a true beacon,
a gleaming bright light on the hill.
if we will only just seek him.

With outstretched arms opened wide
he lovingly and gently pleads,
Please “Come unto me” my dear loved ones.
Please come unto me and be free.

We may not always be so free to choose.
Because of bad choices our freedom we may loose.
But his love will be ours forever,
for us he said, ”Not my will,” but chose only the will of our Father.

Like the clear dawn shining bright
He graciously offers joy, hope, salvation, and might
To free our souls from the dark dreary night
Freely he gives and offers each one a new light.

His light will penetrate all darkness.
His Light illuminates the path of Truth
His Light will overcome all darkness
If we will only just seek and follow the Truth.

I will always love you forever.
You are so much a part of me.
It has not ever been easy,
but a part of me you will always be.

For us who have struggled so greatly,
For us who have slaved with our sin,
For us who are so heavily burdened,
For us Please dear Lord hear our cries from within.

Please help us to move forward.
Please help us to be free.
Please help us to love one another.
Please help us our Savior to see.

Who will we choose to be our Master?
Who can truly save us from Sin?
Will we choose the father of all evil?
Or, will we seek to be with our beloved kin?

Someday love will heal all of our hearts.
Someday love will heal all of our wounds.
Someday my heart will be healed with the tears of your love.
Someday, Someday, hopefully someday soon.

Today I paid your ransom.
Today I put your burden onto me.
I will always love you forever
So today, please, please choose to be free.