We were a dark, burdened race
People laden with their iniquity
Our sins ran like scarlet rivers
Sealing all of us YOUR enemies
As rebellious children now
We turned in un-repentance
Waiting in fearful expectation
Of YOUR fury and vengeance
Destined for deep destruction
We fled in our terror of YOU
But all who forsake the LORD
They shall surely be consumed
YOU only are just in YOUR wrath
YOU alone are completely good
And we knew that we deserved
To be crushed where we stood
But a backward glance we stole
And were staggered by the sight
Of a lonely hill called Calvary
Cloaked within a burning night
We saw for the very first time
All the glory that’s in the cross
That YOU alone could save us
And YOU came seeking the lost
As we stood there and gazed
Upon YOUR only begotten Son
There was nowhere else to look
And with no other place to run
We fell to our knees for grief
Weeping in the raging storm
As the flood of hell’s torment
Broke against a guiltless form
On a cross for all our wickedness
Where HE humbly suffered alone
YOUR love washed our black hearts
Leaving them as white as the snow
There should be a thousand crosses
Where we each pay for our own sin
But YOU know that there is only ONE
Who can bring us home to YOU again
