Children, will you hear the story?
Will you quietly attend?
Hear what once the God of glory
Said to Abraham, his friend?
Children, did not sorrow fill him
When the Lord told him to go,
Take the son he loved, and kill him
In the place that He should show?
But the friend of God obeyed Him;
With his son he journeyed on;
Tied him, on the altar laid him,
Took the knife to kill his son!
But the Lord did not afflict him,
Though He tried his faith so far;
God had found another victim;
O, how great His mercies are!
And He always will deliver
All who put their trust in Him,
God is love, and loves forever,
Like a light that can’t grow dim!
But there once was One forsaken,
Though He did His Father’s will;
Jesus to the cross was taken,
There the sinner’s place to fill.
Think, O think, what Christ has suffered;
Think, the love that God has shown—
Spared the son that Abraham offered;
But He did not spare His Own.
ML 03/13/1938