Haven't You Seen Him?
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Silent he stood in the place of the damned -- Convicted, judged, without cause
It is He who was here before time began -- the sacrificed lamb, eternal "I am"!
If you could see the anguish that was etched into His face as He hung upon the cross to save the human race,
I think that you might realize a love that had no compromise, as He hung condemned for His enemies
to save them from wrath
Haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, Jesus, my Lord?
Haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, Jesus, my Lord?
Can you feel the nails as they are driven through His hands?
Or the crown of thorns . . . or the cross on which He bled?
No sin of His own did He pay for, the innocent blood of this righteous man
was shed for those who deserved to die . . . He died in their sted!
Haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, Jesus, my Lord?
Haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, haven't you seen Him, Jesus, my Lord?
©1999 Jim Minker & "shovel-productions"
words and music written 8/73 & 9/82 by Jim Minker
[Note: I started this song as an acoustic number in 1972 and always tried my hardest to keep the "Rock" feel to a minimum. You see, this took place in the early 70's and even played acoustically (with me on guitar and my wife and I singing) was branded by many as playing "unglorifying", "evil" or "devil" music. This was not easy on a young kid who had just enrolled in an anti-Rock music Bible college!! I often felt "convicted" for hearing a hard rock version of this song playing on and on for HOURS in my own head! I find it rather interesting how the "Spirit" stopped convicting me as the "Christian" world started accepting Rock as a legitimate style. Hmmm .... makes me wonder who's been doing all this "conviction" after all.
Anyhow, in 1982 I made a rewrite of the lyrics. I simply couldn't play it as it was because it had been infused with the typical begging and pleading mentality of modern evangelical preaching. Simply stated, it made the work of Christ on the cross as being dependent upon MAN'S opinion instead of as the victorious reality that it is! The funny thing was that I took out a line I had added in - under some intimidation - leaving the overall sense of it closer to what I originally wrote. Somehow my "uneducated" thoughts weren't as misguided as I had come to think. Hmmm ... I wonder WHO I possibly could have learned that from? :) Jim]
