One Act of Love Lyrics

Can you truly sip of His Cup
And Hand your life over to sinners
To be tortured, Disfigured, and maimed
Pain gifted you in the worst way
Can you truly drink deep of this cup?
And not be consumed with seething hate
As they destroy everything that is you
Because you dared to speak the truth?

Look deep into those sinners eyes
As they lead you up the gallow stairs
As your cities burn to ash behind
As they do what they know not, completely blind
Look deep into your killer's eyes
As they vomit their venom in your ears
In different skin, the same lies of old
But refuse from your flesh not a single blow

See the crowd around you gathered
And not see a single familiar face
In a strange land as hope begins to wane
And question whether you are even sane
See all of humanity gathered around
And know that you suffer for the Christ
Do those doubts begin to take hold?
Do you see yourself abandoned from His fold?

Can you hold fast to your tongue?
As your body falls through the trapdoor
And not curse a single living soul
But rather take the higher road
Your neck cracks as your vision blacks out
The roar of the crowd fades away
Before you shines without a sound
The Celestial Queen with the martyr's crown

Will you not shed a veil of tears
As one by one these souls fall away
Not moved by your loving sacrifice
Not turning away from the sin and vice
Until the very last witness
Of your unjust execution
Gives his all to God before his death
Before his last kin, with his dying breath

A thousand years have since passed
Since you gave your last breath
To the creator of the universe
At the hands of wicked sinners
Only one was saved on that day
But many more came to Christ
All it takes is one act of love
And that was all you were asked of

One act of Love