All of Grace

Michael E. Wood

November 23, 2013

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6

Though the following does not come close to encompassing every aspect featured in the text above, it is an example in simplicity of how theology leads to doxology.

All of grace and all of You,

And all for Thine own glory too.

You bid us come; and make alive,

And by Your Spirit make us thrive

With energy proceeding from

Thy throne until Thy kingdom come.

We thus rejoice in thinking of

Your mercies through redemption's love

Which captivates and stirs anew

Our thoughts to know, there’s none like You

Which could have made so high a plan

And condescend to sinful man.

Deliver us from lowly thought

To praise the grace by which You brought

Us to Yourself at Calvary

In Christ alone upon the tree

To make us Holy, blameless there

In heavenly places where we share

The hope and richest inheritance

In Him who gave us penitence

By which we sing the sweetest frame

And worship You in Jesus name!