This lovely spring tulip
is from my mom's flower garden.
It reminds me that life
is ever new.
From the dry ground
comes this beautiful flower.
Just in time to brighten our spirits
after a long winter.
"Who is a God like you,
pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
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He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:18-19
I like this song. I especially like the words ...."this is THY grand prerogative ....
and none may in this honor share."
A PARDONING GOD
~Samuel Davies
Great God of wonders! all thy ways
Display the attributes divine;
But countless acts of pardoning grace
Beyond thine other wonders shine:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
Crimes of such horror to forgive,
Such guilty, daring worms to spare;
This is thy grand prerogative,
And none may in this honour share:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
In wonder lost, with trembling joy
We take the pardon of our God;
Pardon for crimes of deepest dye,
A pardon bought with Jesu's blood:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
0 may this strange, this matchless grace,
This God-like miracle of love,
Fill the wide earth with grateful praise,
As now it fills the choirs above!
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
2 comments:
These words are slightly modified from those in the Hymns of Worship and Remembrance.
I think the hymnbook has 3 verses and the second verse is considerably softer!
.... just went with the original, unchanged version. Had never heard them before!
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