In Christ Jesus

Condemnation, no, not here for us.
We’re in Christ Jesus, bought by His blood.
The law couldn’t save us for our nature’s to sin,
But Jesus took the punishment meant for us men.
Now let’s live by the Spirit, in darkness no more.
Our old way is death; now there’s life evermore.
We have peace submitting our lives to the Lord.
No longer hostile to God, no longer self at the core.
Christ’s righteousness has made us alive.
If the Spirit’s in us, we can be called a child.
The Spirit kills the wickedness once within us
That we might walk without fear, looking to God above.
We cry, “Daddy,” to Him who made us his heirs
As we share in his suffering before glory to share.
The glory so great, we have hope as we wait.
We groan as we eagerly look to that day
When there’s no decay, no darkness around.
We’ll be adopted, to this world no more bound.
As we wait, we do know for He’s made it clear
That He’ll work it all out so we need not fear.
All things work for good to those who love God.
For his purpose he’s called us in His way to walk.
He already knows; for He writes His own plans.
We’re His to be made like clay in Has hands.
So we know, yes we know, that He is for us.
And nothing, no nothing, can take away His great love.
More than conquerors is what we have been named.
For it’s in Christ Jesus our Lord we’ve been saved.

~reflection on Romans 8