In the image of God ...

 

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(here edited from original (see footnote*) and another verse spliced in, by Paul Walker)

As an image of God 

we were made long ago,

with a purpose divine, 

here His glory to show.

Adam, male & female,

image God and don't fail

while they love God & each

other, where won't they reach?

But we failed Him one day, 

and like sheep went astray.

Thinking not of the cost, 

we that likeness have lost,

though some has been retained

we're like some cloth undone

it can't just be "regained",

from piles of thread, once run.

But from eternity 

God had in mind.

The work of Calvary 

the lost to find.

From above, Christ's love broad, 

as a builder/weaver trod,

so Adam might live again 

as an image of God.

Now that we each 'believed' 

and the Saviour 'received'.

Now that we from our pride

and our guilt are relieved.

We will live for our Lord, 

not for gain or reward,

but for love thinking of 

what His grace has restored.

I'll never comprehend 

redemption's plan.

How Christ, incandescent,

could love 'Adam'.

Such a Saviour we'll praise, 

to the end of our days,

since we've up-ward on-ward trod

as an image of God.

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* Original song by John W  Peterson

In the image of God 

we were made long ago,

with a purpose divine, 

here His glory to show.

But we failed Him one day, 

and like sheep went astray.

Thinking not of the cost, 

we His likeness had lost.

But from eternity 

God had in mind.

The work of Calvary 

the lost to find.

From above, love so broad, 

with no shove, Christ here trod,

so that men might live again 

in the image of God.

Now that I had believed 

and the Saviour "received".

Now that I from my pride

& my guilt am relieved.

I will live for my Lord, 

not for gain or reward,

but for love thinking of 

what His grace has restored.

I'll never comprehend 

redemption's plan.

How Christ could condescend, 

to die for man.

Such a Saviour I'll praise, 

to the end of my days,

since I've up-ward on-ward trod

in the image of God.

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