Mercy's Record
The consequence of what we've done and where we've been before
Is often tempered by God's grace and mercy even more
Than we deserve for what we've done against His Law of love
Recorded in the record books of judgment up above
For if we truly did receive the payment for our sin
God promised was to fall on us back when we did begin
There'd be not one of us today from Adam's fall with Eve
Not one who draws the breath of life or goodness we receive
For God did say that man would die the moment he did eat
The fruit that hung upon the tree that led to his defeat
And had it not been for the Lamb that stepped within the breach
Humanity as it is known would not this moment reach
But God did love us more than we can even comprehend
He loved us more than all the worlds that did not condescend
To giving way to Satan's plan to steal the throne of God
To wipe away the memories of His mighty Staff and Rod
That is the sinner's comfort as the Standard of God's grace
The Standard of His Kingdom that keeps everything in place
The Law that governs hearts and souls to be the more like Him
Who breathed His very living breath within the souls of them
Whom He knew would be broken by the choices they would make
But still made them in likeness of the image He would take
When through His Son of righteousness He'd bear what they had done
And pay the greatest Sacrifice through Jesus Christ the Son
Who changed for them the record to record through His-story
Just one stark fact upon the books that changed the destiny
Of those who truly turn to Him and let His Spirit in
Where once there was a darkened past now stands the cross for sin
No longer held against them who have turned from what they were
Who truly have embraced the love their sins did not deter
And chosen to become like Him Who fashions them in love
Humanity reborn again to fill that home above
Where in that glorious Kingdom where the saints of God will shine
No more will there be one lone thought to bring the past to mind
Just endless lines on pages of what Jesus did for them
Who found the greatest joy in life was being just like Him
Genesis 2:8-17; Revelation 13:6-9; 15:1-5
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