Behold What Wondrous Love

Words: 1 Jn 3:1-3, Gal 4:6  - Isaac Watts, "Hymns and Spiritual Songs"
Modified by Jim Ross.      A song for Pentecost

Music:
    "To Thee I Lift My Soul" (Dwight Armstrong)
   Alternate "This is My Father's World" (Terra Beata)

  1.     Behold what wondrous love
         The Father has bestowed
      On sinners of a mortal race,
         To call them sons of God!
         'Tis no surprising thing
         That we should be unknown;
      The Hebrew world knew not their King,
         God's everlasting Son.

  2.     Nor doth it yet appear
         How great we must be made;
      But when we see our Savior here,
         We shall be like our head.
         A hope so much divine
         May trials well endure;
      May purge our hearts from will to sin,
         As Christ the Lord is pure.

  3.     If in our Father's love
         We share a family part,
      Send down thy Spirit like a dove,
         To rest upon our hearts.
         We would no longer lie
         Like slaves beneath the throne;
      Our faith will Abba, Father, cry,
         And thou your kindred own.

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