Enriched Affections- Mystery of Mercy
    Mystery of Mercy   by Joshua Huff     In eternity past, before time was made   You started a plan to bring glory to Your name   You would create a world, both captive and free   Where creation would declare Your holy majesty   Then sin entered in, enslaving mankind;   Making men blind to you, loving the night.   But You promised grace and mercy would come   Even though we, your enemies, deserved none     Chorus   Mystery of mercy, it is Your sovereign plan.   Mystery of grace, we will never understand   How You could send Your own Son to die   For depraved enemies of Your name, such as I   To adopt us as children of life   Oh, mystery of mercy   Mystery of mercy       As time wandered on, Your plan was revealed   You would send us a savior whose wounded hands would heal   He would live in our world, as a babe enter in   The man, fully God, who would free us from sin   But He was despised, rejected by men.   He suffered Your wrath as the payment for sin.   As a dead lamb He lay, ‘ti...