Forgiveness
How do you seek forgiveness for the darkness of your past
How do you take the burden of your sins that must be cast
Upon a loving Saviour Who invites you on your knees
To come and rest a while with Him and set your mind at ease
How do you hold communion with another who has known
The wildness and the folly of the past that you have sown
Whom also bears the scarring of the foolish things you've done
When you were young and selfish in your quest for number one
And how do you imagine life without the weight of guilt
For sins that you've committed and the blood that you have spilt
From Him Who hung upon the cross so many years ago
To purchase you eternal life that only He could know
You may say it's not easy and in this your words are true
If you believe that all that must be done depends on you
For of yourself there's nothing you can do to merit grace
To stand as one as pure as snow before the Father's face
For pureness and forgiveness come from God and God alone
To cleanse us from the guilt of sin and all the pain we've known
As consequence for actions or the words that we have said
From which there is no turning less to self our soul is dead
And made anew a creature born again in Jesus Christ
A clean and perfect creature for which Jesus paid the Price
That of ourselves we could not pay and hope to live again
As without Him we've only once to die the death of sin
But when Christ died He made a way for each of us to choose
To have a full assurance that His promise we won't lose
That all can be forgiven when in faith we come to Him
Who promised to erase the guilt from everyone of them
Who truly long to please Him through the tenor of their lives
To be a real example of a life where Jesus thrives
Where other souls might see Him through the things we say and do
That they might have assurance of their own forgiveness too
As bringing joy to heaven they in turn desire to be
An instrument for Jesus helping other souls to see
The beauty of our Saviour Who for our forgiveness died
To make us one in glory with the saints close by His side
1 John 1:5-9; 2:1-6; John 14:1-3