God Looked Down

 

 

God looked down

And He smiled then He frowned,

He looked again

Then he saw a cross and a crown.

 

God looked down

And everything was very good,

He smiled a radiant smile

Two people in His garden stood.

 

God looked down

And then he frowned again,

Those two people had found

The path to death and pain.

 

God looked down

On eight people after the flood,

Here was another opportunity

For His children to be good.

 

God looked down

And His smile changed to a frown

For He knew all along

These children would go wrong.

 

God looked down

Across millennia of years

He frowned at the cross

But then a smile appeared.

 

 

This is my beloved Son

In whom I have infinite pleasure

For depraved humanity

This is my utmost treasure.

 

God came down

In the form of His Son

And on Calvary’s tree

Was crucified for everyone.

 

God looked down

As they mocked and ridiculed

And treated His Son

As though a lunatic and fool.

 

God looked down

And on all this he frowned

But the dawn was coming

When His smile would rain down.

 

God looked down

And that frown went away

To be replaced by the smile

As He viewed a coming day

 

For glorious in majesty

Was the Son whom he love

Sitting on the throne beside Him

In heaven above

 

God looks down

And today He still frowns

Because of every human being

Who Him has not yet found

 

But the smile returns

For everyone that comes home

And the Trinity rejoices

Around God’s throne.

 

Stewart Russell © February 2018