....across the room to share a Johnny Cash song....

....called REDEMPTION. I listened to this song a number of times on my travels this month and thought about Johnny Cash and his personal journey of faith. The blood that was shed and the body and life that was given on that awful cross was necessary for our redemption and freedom. Johnny Cash experienced that redemption and knew what it meant to be free from the chains of sin. Thank you God for giving your only Son. Thank you Jesus for dying for us so that we may live forever!

From the hands it came down

from the side it came down

from the feet it came down

and ran to the ground.

Between heaven and hell

a teardrop fell

in the deep crimson dew

the tree of life grew.

And the blood gave life

to the branches of the tree

and the blood was the price

that set the captives free.

And the numbers that came

through the fire and the flood

clung to the tree

and were redeemed by the blood.

From the tree streamed a light

that started the fight

round the tree grew a vine

on whose fruit I could dine.

My old friend Lucifer came

fought to keep me in chains

but I saw through the tricks

of six sixty-six.

And the blood gave life

to the branches of the tree

and the blood was the price

that set the captives free.

And the numbers that came

through the fire and the flood

Clung to the tree

and were redeemed by the blood.

From His hands it came down

From his side it came down

from the feet it came down

and ran to the ground.

And the small inner voice

said you do have a choice

the vine engrafted me

and I clung to the tree.

And the blood gave life

to the branches of the tree

and the blood was the price

that set the captives free.

And the numbers that came

through the fire and the flood

I clung to the tree

and was redeemed by the blood.

From His hands it came down

from His side it came down

from the feet it came down

and ran to the ground.