Living Forgiven

All you who know God come and hear.
Let me tell of when the Lord came near.
My God place my sins before my eyes;
I did not try to excuse them with lies.

Had I kept my evil sins in my heart,
God would not have listen to any part.
But I confessed all the sin that was there,
And the Lord was faithful hearing my prayer.

In sin there is death. But in Christ I live.
This is the gift my loving Father gives.
So death where is your sting, that sin?
It has been blotted out, forgiven by Him.

He has hurled our sins into the deep sea;
He has crushed it that it can never more be.
As far as east is from the west sin is gone;
Hidden from His memory, never to see dawn.

While I was dead in my sin, He came for me.
To me, a sinner most foul, He did show mercy.
That which once was by my dark sin defiled;
Now through Him and to Him I am reconciled.

Only by His grace and mercy can I be purified;
It is by His righteous blood that I am justified.
As a father has compassion the child on his knee,
So God my Father has had compassion on me.

Praise God… I am living Forgiven
Praise God… I am living in His love.
Praise God… I am living Forgiven
Praise God… from the heavens above.

Carl A. Gooch ~ 12 November 2012