Oh listen to a story of abounding grace

Oh listen to a story of abounding grace Of how our God came down to earth to join the human race And through His kind intention, He came up with a plan That He Himself might be expressed by dispensing into man.

Oh what a kind intention, oh what abounding grace How our God came down to earth to join the human race It surely was a mystery so deep we could not trace That we might be to the praise of the glory of His grace.

For God had predetermined, by His counsel and His will That man might be a vessel, which He Himself would fill And so for this He chose us, back in eternity And He predestinated us His very sons to be.

His task, it was not easy, it surely took much grace When on the earth He first appeared, a man in time and space And then for thirty-three long years, He lived out God in Man That He might fully carry out all of the Father’s plan.

At the end of His lifetime, He did a wondrous thing Went to the cross and shed His blood, redemption to win This brought us into favour, into a blessed place For God forgave our offenses by the riches of His grace.

Now in the application, the Spirit’s moving in Applying all the Son has done, forgiving all our sin He’s sealing God into us, full sonship to bring Oh, this is the mystery of the universe, and this is why we sing.