God So Loved the World

Born in a barn, laid in a cattle trough,

Raised by a carpenter so none could say,

“He didn’t know my poverty.”

With not a place to lay His weary head,

An outcast by His own so none could say,

“He didn’t know my need.”

He came into our world the lowest of the low,

The spotless Son of God embraced our filth below,

The perfect Prince of Heav’n eternal, so lovely as He was,

Became a mortal man all because

That God to loved the world.

Mocked and despised, refused by noble men,

Accused by wrongful lies, so none could say,

“He didn’t know my loneliness.”

Stripped and oppressed, beaten and cruelly scorned,

Nailed to the worst of deaths, so none could say,

“He knew not my distress.”

He came into our world the lowest of the low,

The spotless Son of God embraced our filth below,

The perfect Prince of Heav’n eternal, so lovely as He was,

Became a mortal man all because

That God to loved the world.

There’s none that here can stand and say, “He knows not where I am.”

There’s not a lot or need on earth our Lord can’t understand.

So I am full persuaded that naught can separate 

Us from His love, nor any prayer our God can’t undertake.

For, 

He came into our world the lowest of the low,

The spotless Son of God embraced our filth below,

The perfect Prince of Heav’n eternal, so lovely as He was,

Became a mortal man all because

That God to loved the world.