Mercy-flood

He reaches from His throne on high

To brush the night-time from the sky

The hand of love that never fails

Bearing the imprint of those nails

Does not ignore us in our plight

But fans the deep with Morning Light

His love beholds earth’s troubled slope

He rends the dark with Living Hope

For when we were dead in our sin

He raised us up to live with Him

Rejoice; the Son pierces the gloom

And saves us from death’s darkest doom

He lavishes on sinful men

His grace and washes sinners clean

For mortal flesh could never save

The soul from death’s eternal grave

But oh, the love His mercy gives

As man beholds the cross and lives

He reaches from His throne on high

To soothe the tear-drop in our eye

And like the sword pierced Him that day

As crimson floods washed guilt away

Now He pierces fear’s darkest night

Love bleeds across the earth in Light

© Janet Martin

Imagine if one day there was no Light, and one morning nothing to pierce the night…

Often, as the sun break through night’s dark bonds it reminds me of the Son breaking through our darkness flooding it with marvelous Light.

 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,  in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.  For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Eph. 2:4-9