Of Love and Justice

God’s love beheld our hopeless state

Mankind born into sin

God’s justice knew the blood of rams

Could never wash us clean

God’s love offered His only Son

To die in our place

And through Him we are justified

As we are saved by grace

God’s Son did not come to this world

To offer condemnation

But Love and Justice gave Himself

To purchase our salvation

For Justice cannot look on sin

So Love offered a way

For every sinner to be clean

On that Great Judgment Day

God’s love beholds our hopeless state

Sin’s vile and curs-ed seed

But once for all He paid its price

As He died in our stead

God’s justice binds our debt of guilt

As we cry, I believe

God’s love beholds His Son’s blood spilt

As we His Gift receive

While man beheld His suffering

As Jesus bled and died

God saw beyond His offering

To sinners justified

And while men jeered in victory

Of Jesus crucified

God's love beheld Hope's finished work

Justice was satisfied

© Janet Martin