Jesus Falls the Third Time
Three times You fall. Three times Your limbs fail as Your strength ebbs away.
Three times Your friend—the one who lived with You, ate with You, saw Your power and love displayed to everyone You met—vehemently denied even knowing You.
When I think of the many times I have denied You, driven You to Your knees under my blows, I wish the earth would open and swallow me up.
But You will not stop. You rise again. Faithful to me to the last, the one who is so faithless to You.
Oh Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner!
