Oh listen to a story of abounding grace

Oh listen to a story of abounding grace

Of how our God came down to earth to join the human race

And through His kind intention

He came up with a plan

That He Himself might be expressed by dispensing into man.

Oh what a kind intention

oh what abounding grace

How our God came down to earth to join the human race

It surely was a mystery so deep we could not trace

That we might be to the praise of the glory of His grace.

For God had predetermined

by His counsel and His will

That man might be a vessel

which He Himself would fill

And so for this He chose us

back in eternity

And He predestinated us His very sons to be.

His task

it was not easy

it surely took much grace

When on the earth He first appeared

a man in time and space

And then for thirty-three long years

He lived out God in Man

That He might fully carry out all of the Father’s plan.

At the end of His lifetime

He did a wondrous thing

Went to the cross and shed His blood

redemption to win

This brought us into favour

into a blessed place

For God forgave our offenses by the riches of His grace.

Now in the application

the Spirit’s moving in

Applying all the Son has done

forgiving all our sin

He’s sealing God into us

full sonship to bring

Oh

this is the mystery of the universe

and this is why we sing.