Introductory pages - New Creation Teaching Ministry

3. Godʼs loved are its objects to bring into shame,
Seduce till their love is forlorn.
A dew that must melt in the burn of the noon,
And all its fair promise be gone;
As Israel in splendour grew careless of awe,
Forgetting the glories of grace,
It turned to new idols, expending its power,
Befouling its heart to a waste.
The love thatʼs eternal brings judgement to all,
Brings horror where idols hold sway
Till spirit revolts at the sight of its sin
And weeps for the Lord it betrays.
4. Then He who has loved us with mercy so full
Brings cleansing that makes us anew:
His love is so pure we gladly endure
The scourge of the judgement thatʼs true.
ʼTis then that we love Your chastening hand,
Your eyes that must banish disgrace.
ʼTis then we believe in Your promise of old
That tells of Your mercy and grace,
For ʻI will restore your hard heartʼ, says the Lord,
ʻTo joy that it knew in those days;
With praise that arose and the worship you gave
When grace was before you alwaysʼ.
© 1992 Geoffrey Bingham, 1919–2009. Used by permission.
331 Christine Dieckmann
1. In love and in grace, so rich and so bold,
Almighty God, Father, Redeemer from old,
His own precious Son, all He had He gave,
Abandoned the guiltless the guilty to save.
O greatest of wonders and deepest of joys
That I, a child of wrath became a child of God
In His own loving choice;
In Christ upon His Cross the judgement went through;
On Him I have believed, forgiveness have received;
Behold I am made new.
2. In love and in grace; in body, in blood,
The Fatherʼs Son, Jesus, endured wrath of God.
He who became sin, in shame crucified;
He death overpowered, all sin purified.
3. In love and in grace; in might and in power,
Godʼs own Holy Spirit, in evilʼs dark hour,
Led Christ to His Cross, sustained Him ʼtil death
And then to life raised Him with Godʼs holy breath.
4. In love and in grace—abundant and free—
Almighty God, Threesome, has caused it to be;
God dwells in a man—a man dwells in God—
Forever together through covenant blood.
© 1991 Christine Dieckmann. Used by permission.
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