Once we stood in condemnation,
Waiting thus the sinner’s doom;
Christ in death has wrought salvation;
God has raised Him from the tomb.
As strangers then to God we lived,
Filled with enmity and fear;
Our souls from death He has reprieved;
Love revealed and brought us near.
Now we see in Christ’s acceptance
But the measure of our own;
Him who lay beneath our sentence,
Seated high upon the throne.
Quickened, raised and in Him seated,
We a full deliverance know;
Every foe has been defeated;
Every enemy laid low.
Now we have a life in union
With the risen life above;
Now we drink in sweet communion
Some rich foretaste of His love.
Soon, O Lord, in brightest glory,
All its vastness we’ll explore;
Soon we’ll cast our crowns before Thee,
While we worship and adore.
G. W. Frazer, Little Flock Hymnbook, #200