My Saviour Is A Jew

My Saviour Is A Jew

My Saviour is a Jew - and my Saviour is God

Our Mediator, is a Jew - the Man, Christ Jesus

How can I damp and deny - my tender heart for Israel?

No, compelled I am - to love the Jewish nation

From my childhood - and even until today

My greatest life's heros - are descendants of Abraham

A promised son sacrificed - thank you kindly sir

A covenant unrelenting - with, God Most High

To bear the needed Saviour - of, this human world

So, death and even hell - can sting His own, no more

And thank you Joseph - to suffering you surrender

For the God of Abraham - Isaac and Jacob

And for the blessed - nation of Israel

What of humble Moses - servant of the Lord

I want to shake your hand - and to hug you tight

I often thank my God - and Father for you

I love these of whom - this world is unworthy

And the nation - oh Is-ra-el

No other nation - on this earth He made

Holds so dear to me - so many heros beloved

Oh, how can my heart - be so coldly indifferent?

No, my heart warms - when I think of King David

Such persevering passion - for the King of Kings

Elijah, and Elisha - Jeremiah and Nehemiah

Daniel, Esther, Ezra - and John the Baptist

To so many Jews, I owe my life - my culture and my nation

My Judeo-Christian thinking - and my heavenly perspective

To the 'Highly Favoured' Mary - who bore, but to grieve

But yet, rejoice again - a Saviour of her people

Thank you dear Father- for the Jewish nation

For so many that died to self - to bring the needed Saviour

Who takes far, away - the sin of this dying world

I would hardly, now - live in and by the Spirit

Were it not for Peter - Paul, James and John

I wouldn't know the depths - of many a thing

For through the many beatings - their voice was always heard

But now of you and me - so easily take for granted

With our superior Western - Laodicean pride

For we, surely know - the Bible's 'true' theology

And of our 'greater' Church - and our 'better' ways.

Thank you Paul for floggings - shipwreck, despising and jail

That we might know today - of mysteries deep and great

Yes Paul, and I too - love the Jewish people

And I long and pray - for hardened hearts to soften

Sadly, Augustine too - found little favour for the Jews

And his disciple Luther - was by far, even worse

Yet, thank you Mr. Spurgeon - for your compassion and respect

'We, as Christians, ought be furthest - from despising the suffering Jew'

Oh what a price to pay - for rejecting your Messiah

2000 years of scatter - to earth's far four corners

Persecuted and despised - and driven from the lands

So much ignorance of history - and silly theories abound

Oh how I pray for the saving - of the nation of Is-ra-el

Even as Jesus' own nation - continues to reject Him now

They need not accept their Saviour - in order for me to love

For I too rejected Him - but He loved and called me still

For God loves all peoples - and so I love the Jews

How can I say I love Paul - but to his brethren 'Nay?'

Please bring them to you - Lord Jesus, on high

And peace upon Jerusalem - is my daily cry

Still Rachel is weeping - for her many children

The abandoned of the centuries - called to come back home

How can we who are saved - His true and grafted brethren

Be so cold, and indifferent - to His suffering national brethren?

The Jewish Son of God - will return to us one day

To judge the world complete - not a one escapes

Just a cup of water to His people - and His creation?

Or did I wish them well - without a helping hand?

Yes, my Lord and Maker - how I love Is-ra-el

(Neil Baulch - bib1e.org)