May His grace be told!
Did you know God's word awoke?
Lo! His grace was bold!
Christ grew as a tender shoot
May His grace be told!
Desert sands around His root
Lo! His grace was bold!
Holden eyes could not discern
May His grace be told!
Beauties God would have us learn
Lo! His grace was bold!
Darkened hearts would not esteem
May His grace be told!
Beauties which are heaven's theme.
Lo! His grace was bold!
Now my lightened heart can see
May His grace be told!
What He bore He bore for me
Lo! His grace was bold!
(This continues thoughts I had on Isaiah 53 in varying poetic forms during 2020.)
The trumpet's clear note;
Yet ploughmen plough, tradesmen trade
And courtiers court.
Have you believed the message that God sent?
Have you received His pure since-time-began
Prophets? Consider all that He has spent;
And since men disbelieved He sent His Son
To let you know His heart. In grace He pleads
And shows you that He longs to fill your heart;
In Christ He has the answer to your needs:
Repent, go out from hence; depart, depart!
And has the Lord revealed His arm to you?
It is not shortened that it cannot save;
He will redeem you with a stretched-out arm
And what unbounded blessings will ensue!
He’ll ransom you from all that might enslave
Through One who came here with no worldly charm.
(Isaiah 53: 5)
Blessed is our peace: peace
With God; peace in the heart;
The peace of God, the God
Of peace.
Peace has been made; God
Has made peace; made peace
"By the blood of his cross":
Christ's cross.
"He is our peace": tempering
The disparate into one man
In Himself; reconciling us
By the cross.
What chastisement! Our peace
Exists and subsists through chastisement:
The chastisement of our peace was
Upon Him.
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| The Forth at Granton |
Did you heed the word God spoke?
May His grace be told!
Did you know God's word awoke?
Lo! His grace was bold!
Christ grew as a tender shoot
May His grace be told!
Desert sands around His root
Lo! His grace was bold!
Holden eyes could not discern
May His grace be told!
Beauties God would have us learn
Lo! His grace was bold!
Darkened hearts would not esteem
May His grace be told!
Beauties which are heaven's theme.
Lo! His grace was bold!
Now my lightened heart can see
May His grace be told!
What He bore He bore for me
Lo! His grace was bold!
We like sheep have gone astray
May His grace be told!
Only Jesus walked God's way
Lo! His grace was bold!
He has borne the sins of all
May His grace be told!
Who in faith have heard His call
Lo! His grace was bold!
As a lamb led out to die
May His grace be told!
He made no complaining cry
Lo! His grace was bold!
He was captured and oppressed
May His grace be told!
So that I am freed and blessed
Lo! His grace was bold!
Who shall tell Messiah's seed?
May His grace be told!
Those who have been blessed and freed
Lo! His grace was bold!
From the land of those who live
May His grace be told!
Cut off: so God may forgive
Lo! His grace was bold!
For the evils of my folk
May His grace be told!
Christ has borne God's judgment stroke
Lo! His grace was bold!
Men assigned a felons grave
May His grace be told!
God ensure a rich man's cave
Lo! His grace was bold!
He had done no violence
May His grace be told!
He spoke no malevolence
Lo! His grace was bold!
By God's will His Christ was bruised
May His grace be told!
By man's will He was abused
Lo! His grace was bold!
He became an offering
May His grace be told!
From that death what seed shall spring
Lo! His grace was bold!
Long is His life in that land
May His grace be told!
God's joy burgeons in His hand
Lo! His grace was bold!
Seed is sprouting since He died
May His grace be told!
And His heart is satisfied
Lo! His grace was bold!
God would have this Man to teach
May His grace be told!
Who through grace stood in the breach
Lo! His grace was bold!
God would have Him celebrate
May His grace be told!
Sharing with the strong and great
Lo! His grace was bold!
Reckoned with those who transgress
May His grace be told!
He poured out His soul to bless
Lo! His grace was bold!
He bore sin for souls in need
May His grace be told!
Listen to Him intercede
Lo! His grace was bold!
Try singing to "Bruce
For the Son of man
On our behalf has poured out
His soul unto death.
