God With Us
How broad the great expanse of what our God has done for us
The depths of condescension for the ones who choose to trust
Their all to our salvation demonstrated on that tree
Where God gave all to save us by Christ's death on Calvary
No mortal eye has seen it and no mortal tongue can tell
The great Expense He paid for us to save our souls from hell
That hell of separation that Christ suffered on the cross
When He was left in darkness counting all as gone and lost
For He Who was immortal from the times of eons past
In mystery prepared a plan for those who chose to cast
Their weak and sinful selfishness before the feet of Him
Who gave His perfect holiness to save the souls of them
And more than just the planning He put everything in place
That must by His eternal Law be done to prove His grace
Becoming One among us in the same way that we are
From just a baby in a stall beneath that Christ mass star
To youth as One in learning He would see each day the Lamb
The emblem of the promised One Who is the great I Am
Observing all the sacraments that Israel was taught
Along with stories of the past of battles He had fought
Against the devil's minions in the history of them
Whom God had called and organized to teach the world of Him
But who had failed Him greatly as they chose the world instead
Of Him Who had the power of life to raise them from the dead
And then as He was older as He walked among all men
While perfect by God's Spirit and offended by all sin
He knew His time was coming when He would be crucified
For crimes that we committed for which Innocence was tried
And still He chose to be here never turning from the way
That led to accusations and the lies for which He paid
Because of love's compassion for the weary tried and lost
For which our God did willing absorb the total cost
If we would simply trust Him in our actions thoughts and speech
Abandoning our sinful ways that He through us might reach
The burdened poor and outcast with the lessons of God's love
That He exemplified in life when He came from above
Matthew 1:22-25; Hebrews 10:1-10
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