THE GLORIOUS GOD

God is a God of holiness;

His Word declares His righteous law.

His truth reveals Him as He is,

Perfect and pure, without a flaw.

God is a wise, all-knowing God.

He sees all sin in sin’s true light.

His wrath must rest on guilty men –

No man is righteous in His sight.

God loved with everlasting love

His own among a sinful race.

His pitying mercy planned a way

How He could look on us in grace.

His sinless Son fulfilled God’s plan;

For us He lived, for us He died.

He bore the righteous wrath of God

And all God’s claims were satisfied.

Now this just God can justify

All who believe in Jesus’ name:

He counts them righteous in His sight

And sees no more their sin and shame.

Margaret Siddans

December 1998.