[182]. A Message From A Poem – Marys At The Cross (An Easter Poem)

[182]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MARYS AT THE CROSS (An Easter Poem)

This is an Easter poem about 4 women, precious ones in the life of the Lord during His time on earth. Some people find it confusing to work the Marys out, especially at Easter time. What the Marys speak of is total devotion and love.

The poem looks at these ladies and also their time at the foot of the cross.

{{Mark 15:40-41 “There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and SALOME, and when He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him, and there were many other women who had come up with Him to Jerusalem.”}}

{{John 19:25 “Therefore the soldiers did these things. There were standing by the cross of Jesus HIS MOTHER, and HIS MOTHER’S SISTER, MARY the wife of Clopas, and MARY MAGDALENE.”}}

In most churches where I have been the women outnumber the men. This is a curious thing but I sense that women are more compassionate than men who are more analytical and matter-of-fact. Women are more likely to respond to the compassionate message of the cross. I could be wrong. There can also be an arrogance among women which is why they seems to be dominating in politics and government offices, even churches, and taking jobs men used to have. That is just the signs of the times now when gender has been overturned with feminism and trans people seem to have all the rights. This is an outrage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHAXvh6NiQE

These lovely women at the cross did not just end it there. They devotedly set about – {{Luke 23:55-56 “Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed after and saw the tomb and how His body was laid, and THEY RETURNED AND PREPARED SPICES AND PERFUMES and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.”}}

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MARYS AT THE CROSS (An Easter Poem)

What anguish did those men endure!

What sorrow hung about that scene!

Three men were crucified that day.

What did the crowd about them mean?

Golgotha’s hill attracted some -

The curious and following.

But near the cross some women stood,

Heartbroken in their sorrowing.

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What pangs of sorrow and deep pain

Descended on one woman, fair -

The earthly mother of the Lord;

The blesséd one so helpless there.

A sword was piercing through her soul

As Simeon had once revealed.

Now here she watched her holy Son

With sympathy, and face so teared.

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The shepherds to the Baby came -

Their message of a Saviour born

In David’s city, Christ the Lord,

Would herald man’s redemptive dawn.

The Magi came from distant parts;

Presented to Him sorrow’s myrrh.

But all these things did Mary note -

These incidents she kept with her.

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But no fulfilment of these truths

Could ever take away her tears.

Her firstborn Son is crucified;

There, Mary knows a mother’s fears.

No mother’s heart could bear to see

A son so cruelly dealt by man.

She stands there with a broken heart.

Perhaps one wonders how she can.

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Another Mary at the cross

Is traced through God’s historic word.

Devoted loyalty shines through;

Her silent confirmation’s heard.

This Mary, known as Magdalene,

By sin and Satan once was owned -

But when delivered by the Lord,

Her Saviour ever she enthroned.

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She owed Him much for her release,

For seven demons reigned in her.

So now she served devotedly

With activated love the spur.

From Galilee she’d come with Christ -

To His disciples ministered.

But now distressed, she viewed the sight

Where for her sins, her Saviour bled.

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The series of events to come,

Just then she could not comprehend.

But to the tomb on Sunday morn

With saddened heart her way she’d wend,

Before the hinting light of dawn,

With grieving spirits, and distressed.

But ‘ere she’d leave that empty tomb

Her joy revived, for she’d be blessed.

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Another Mary stood there too,

A witness to man’s cruel hand.

This one, the wife of Cleophas,

A faithful member of that band.

As mighty Prophet, Christ she knew

In word and deed confirmed to all.

Redemption for Israel she hoped.

But now that hope was caused to fall.

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But Mary could not know just then

The blessings she would come to know.

Just two more days, and on a road,

A Stranger set God’s word aglow.

Such blessedness! Such joy to come!

Yet here that day she understood

The depth of man’s sadistic acts

Where Christ was spiked to arms of wood.

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Three Marys watched, Salome too -

Their courage firm unto the end.

Commendable their faithfulness,

That in Christ’s need, that four would spend

Their time, in comfort close to Him.

O what devotion! Love supreme!

But He is worth the sacrifice,

Whose love extended to redeem.

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3 - 4 October 1999 R E Ferguson 8s throughout