Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

For the first time, I heard this song sang in church last night, Good Friday Mass.

And that very first time I hear it, I fall in love with it.

I love the lyrics. The words really touch me...

Indeed, the readings for the past week did.

It touches me when a sinless man, the Son of God, die for us while we are sinners. How great the Lord is!

My heart moves when the Lamb of God, who knows that he will be crucified, His heart was troubled, and so He cried out loud to His Father in Heaven "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?" ( My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?)

I couldn't imagine how heavy was the Cross Jesus carry, that He, the very Son of God, a King himself, made slave by the sinners, made powerless, that he had to ask His Father why He abandoned him.

Yet, in such agony, he humbled himself, and take the cup for the sake of mankind.

"If tis cup can't pass by without my drinking it, let your will be done"

It touches me because I have gone through similar situation. Many a times, I do ask God, why He has forsaken me, in time when I need Him the most?

Why he has to take away my loved ones, when I still need them....

Isn't the same what Jesus asked 2000 years ago? But the cup, he Had to drink it, to fulfill the scripture. So, I take it as such too. Some suffering in life, God allows to happen to us, because He knows what is the best for us, He knows that we can carry the cross, He will never give us a cross that is beyond our strength.

"Lord, I may not know what is your will, but if it is too be done, walk with me Jesus..."

This is the lyrics.

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?

Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?