Righteously Now Remembered Not

“And now, Lord, what wait I for?  My hope is in Thee” (Psalm 39:7).  “For whoso findeth Me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.  But he that sinneth against Me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate Me love death” (Proverbs 8:35,36).  “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12). 

Our only hope is in the Lord;

Apart from Him there is no Savior,   

For Christ alone can well afford

The grace that will extend His favor. 

There’s no one else for whom we wait,

For every other hope is vain. 

How foolishly do sinners hate

The only Hope they may obtain. 

Our God has set both life and death

Before us all so we may choose

The Lord who gave His final breath

To grant us life we cannot lose.

How else could God be merciful

Unless He fully paid the cost

To ransom and to save the soul

By dying to redeem the lost?

How else could God be satisfied,

According to His righteousness,

Unless our Substitute had died

To rescue those whom He would bless? 

How else could our iniquity

Be never more recalled by God,

Forgotten thus, judicially,

Unless Christ bore our judgment rod. 

O Lord, You’ve made the choices clear:

There is no middle ground we find. 

The soul can trust you, drawing near,

Or walk in darkness with the blind. 

O Lord, we thank You for such grace

This earth has never seen before

By which You righteously erase

Our sins remembered never more!