{"id":497,"date":"2010-02-28T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/propitiation-by-kevin-t-bauder\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T04:06:00","slug":"propitiation-by-kevin-t-bauder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Propitiation by Kevin T. Bauder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like a traitor, scorning justice,
Head unbowed before God’s Law,
Given glimpses of the Holy,
Tyranny was all I saw.<\/p>\n

Soul infused with serpents’ venom,
Purposing unholy war,
Hands devising clever mischief,
All of this was I, and more.<\/p>\n

He, dispensing awful justice
Haled me up before His throne,
Bound on me the grave indictment
Of commandments hewn in stone.<\/p>\n

“Answer now,” the judge demanded,
“Justify yourself to me.
Saints and angels wait your answer\u2014
Enter your judicial plea.”<\/p>\n

I, exposed by blinding justice,
Naked in its righteous glare,
Stripped of every self-deception,
Stood with nothing to declare.<\/p>\n

“Guilty!”\u00a0u<\/span>ttered heaven’s ruler.
“Guilty!”\u00a0e<\/span>choed hosts on high.
“Guilty!”\u00a0c<\/span>harged my trembling conscience.
Guilty, and condemned to die.<\/p>\n

Then the shouting storm grew soft, the
Shuddering of the earth grew still,
Blazing glory darkened, smoldered,
Waiting for the judge’s will.<\/p>\n

Crushed beneath the graven statutes,
Prostrate in the judgment hall,
Cringed I from impending judgment\u2014
Dreadful fire about to fall.<\/p>\n

Multitudes in glooming silence,
Wrath inscribed on every face\u2014
Heard each one a small voice utter,
“I will take this sinner’s place.”<\/p>\n

“Lay his guilt on my account, and
Let Thy righteous will be done.
May Thy Law be satisfied!” Thus
Pled for me the Judge’s Son.<\/p>\n

“Thou art My Beloved Son, Thou
Firstborn from eternity.”
These words spake the Holy One, then
Turned His loving gaze toward me.<\/p>\n

“Strip this sinner of his guilt, and\u00a0
Grant My Son as He has prayed.
Lay on Him the Law’s demand\u2014now,
LET THE PRICE BE PAID.”<\/p>\n

Thirsty whips and thudding hammers,
Iron nails and angry thorns\u2014
Darkness grows as guiltless suffers;
Stunned to blackness, Heaven mourns.<\/p>\n

Like a Lamb, offered to justice,
Bloodied, broken by God’s Law,
In His person, ever holy,
Guilt\u2014my guilt\u2014was all God saw.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Stands the sacrifice complete, for
Justice has been satisfied.
Vengeance here is spent, exhausted,
Once the Lamb of God has died.<\/p>\n

Now again the Mighty Savior
Lives enthroned as God the Son:
Goodness, justice, judgment, mercy
Reconcile in Him as one.<\/p>\n

My whole duty now to trust, for
He alone can free the soul.
Rightly seeks He my submission
Lovingly I yield, heart-whole.<\/p>\n

Here I kneel in adoration,
Fear displaced by grateful trust,
In the Captain of Salvation\u2014
Justifier, yes! and just.<\/p>\n

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