"Face the Cross" (Ruth Elaine & Scott Schram), PBCC Choir

It was performed by the Peninsula Bible Church Cupertino Choir on September 25, 2016.

Face the Cross
(Words and Music by Ruth Elaine Schram & Scott Schram)


You came into the world as a tiny Child,
small and unassuming.
From Your first conscious thought,
You knew Calvary was before You, looming.
You knew who You were, what You would do,
why You had been sent to this place:

To face the cross, never turn away,
the salvation of the world hangs in the balance.
You must face the cross, follow and obey,
knowing God will make a way
for You to face the cross.

Mary, on Golgotha's hill,
mourning ev'ry wound,
broken hearted, crying.
You can't believe your eyes,
cannot bear to see your son and Savior dying.
You heard His first word, held Him in your arms;
now you pray to heaven for grace

To face the cross, never turn away,
the salvation of the world hangs in the balance.
You must face the cross, follow and obey,
knowing God will make a way
for You to face the cross.

How hard it is to look upon that dying form,
to resist the urge to run for cover from the storm.
But each of us is free to choose
to turn away, or to stay

and embrace the cross;
stand and face the cross.
The salvation of the world hangs in the balance.
Stand and face the cross, never turn away;
follow and obey,

knowing God will make a way
for you to face the cross, face the cross.
Face the cross.