Beautiful and Blameless

“The LORD taketh pleasure in His people: He will beautify the meek with salvation” (Psalm 149:4).  “Wisdom… shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee” (Proverbs 4:7-9).  “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it… We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation” (Isaiah 25:8,9).  “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight” (Colossians 1:21,22). 

The pleasure of the Lord is seen

In those He beautifies.

Salvation makes the sinner clean,

Unblameable, and wise.

The sinner now who wisely fears

Is crowned with saving grace,

And thereby God will wipe the tears  

Away from every face.

The death that would have swallowed us

He’ll swallow up at last.

Salvation shall be glorious

And sorrow shall be passed. 

Then those who once were enemies

And strangers in their mind,

Shall know the truth that saves, that frees,

And gives sight to blind.  

Thus reconciled to the Lord

By Christ who for us died,

In beauty He shall be adored

By those He justified.

We thank You, Lord, for victory

That has removed our blame.

For time and all eternity

With joy we’ll praise Your name.