There are three key words
At this time I would wish to recall:
Without these three attributes
There could be no salvation at all.
I am talking about God’s “justice”
His “mercy” and His “grace”
And without the latter two
We would never see Christ’s face.
Justice is what we deserve
It is simply sin’s wage,
Death is what we have worked for
At each and every stage.
God’s justice was “appeased”
When Jesus hung at Calvary,
His judgment was visited on His Son
When Jesus died for you and me.
Mercy is not getting what we deserve
Death was our just dessert
Bur God in His mercy smiled on us
When Jesus experience the hurt.
So justice was the death I deserved
But in mercy I was divinely rescued:
The sin on Jesus was my own
But mercifully he paid my due.
Grace, grace, God’s marvelous grace
Extending what I did not deserve,
After rescuing me from a deserving death
Now a place in heaven has reserved.
Justice is the death that I deserve
But mercy rescued me,
Grace did much more than either of these
For I am God’s eternally.
Stewart Russell © June 2018
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