We were lost in nature’s darkness;
Help nowhere for us was found;
Without strength we were and helpless;
Then we heard the joyful sound;
God so loved the world
He gave us His beloved Son to die
On the cross that He might save us;
Where is love with God’s to vie?
On divine insistence, look we
With amazed, adoring eyes
Upon Jesus there at Calvary
As He languishes and dies;
Dies for all, we do believe Him;
He for you has shed His blood;
Will you not by faith receive Him
And by Him be brought to God?
Brought to God, O gracious Saviour,
In the virtue of Thy blood;
We are through Thy love and favor
Thy joint-heirs and heirs of God;
This high honor we inherit,
Sons of God through sovereign grace,
We are, through Thy worth and merit,
Fully saved from Adam’s race.
E. Tonn (1985)