In Sketches

The Old Rugged Cross is Back

I listened to all kinds of music. I love all types of music. I spent time listening to rap, jazz, country or pop or whatever. Any music has its beauty. It helps to put you in perspective. May be we devote too much time to pop culture today. Anyway, I won urge anyone to abstain from listening music. I would only ask you to do some charity to yourself. Change your music genre for a while. It can do you a lot of good. Do it as a Lenten penance. I listened to an old classic hymn of George Bernard today. It is said that "On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross". If you have to cling on to anything, cling on to this. Well, this hymn places you right there. Listen to it and spend little time meditating on it. It won harm you anyway. You can follow the words as well as scripted below.

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suff’ring and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.

So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.

In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.