You Provided The Way

“Since there is only one God, he will treat us all the same—he eliminates our guilt and makes us right with him by faith no matter who we are… no one earns God’s righteousness. It can only be transferred when we no longer rely on our own works, but believe in the one who powerfully declares the ungodly to be righteous in his eyes. It is faith that transfers God’s righteousness into your account!” Romans 3:30 & 4:5 TPT

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

Like the child who has abandoned
His parents loving home
Taking all my inheritance
To do life on my own
Squandering my blessings
On riotous living
I have nothing to offer You
But a person by sin broken

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

Like the son who has worked
Daily by Your side
Thinking that what he does
Will win him the prize
Of being your beloved
In Your blessings rewarded
I have nothing to offer
But a person bound in pride

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

You offer Your love freely
For You have paid the cost
To set me free from sin and death
Into Your righteousness
To raise me from death to life
Seated with Christ by Your side
A child of Your kingdom home
With Your Beloved Son now One

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

You eliminate our guilt
For Jesus took it to the grave
You give us Your righteousness
With Your goodness, we you save
It is such a blessing
To know all my sin
Has died with Jesus
And in You I am re-made

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

Thankful I cannot earn it
But to ALL it’s freely given
I rejoice in Your righteousness
The blessing of Your Presence
For now I am Your child
With a son’s inheritance
Living in Your kingdom
Filled to fullness with Your essence

There is nothing I can do God
Nothing I can say
That will make You love me more
For You provided the way
To make me right with You
As in You I put my faith

Righteous Eternally

“Where, then, is there room for boasting? Do our works bring God’s acceptance? Not at all! It was not our works of keeping the law but our faith in his finished work that makes us right with God. So our conclusion is this: God’s wonderful declaration that we are righteous in his eyes can only come when we put our faith in Christ, and not in keeping the law.” Romans 3:27-28 TPT

When I think I can boast
In doing work for God
Looking down on others
For their sins and failures
Your Spirit whispers to me
Of how I need a Saviour
For I can never be perfect
Never by works earn Your favour

So I fall back on Jesus
As my only hope
Only He has lived a perfect life
In this broken world
And as I put my faith and trust
In His saving work
God You declare over me
“You are righteous, eternally.”

When I’m struggling with sin
Struggling with temptation
I cannot overcome it
With my strength and determination
For when I think I can see
Without Your help a way forward
Sin clouds my judgement
And pride becomes my fall

When I think I have wisdom
To deal with situations
That I can know Your ways
By just Your rules and regulations
Map a path forward
That leads me to heaven
Jesus reminds me
Of the Pharisees leaven

When I seek to judge
The actions of others
Pointing out their sins
And their moral failures
Thinking I have lived
A better life than them
You remind me I’ve failed to love
The way that only Jesus can

When my eyes are on me
Recording successes or failures
I’m not looking at Jesus
To become like my Saviour
I need to change where I gaze
Put Jesus in first place
That is the repentance
At the heart of Salvation

When I gaze at Jesus
See His holy life
I am moved by the beauty
Of His righteous love
The way He seeks the lost and broken
To show them God’s love
With His healing and forgiveness
And His embracing righteousness

The more I gaze at Jesus
The clearer I see my failures
How my own works
Can never earn God’s favours
But I also see the hope
See that Jesus still loves me
Reaches out to heal and save me
To give His life to me

The more I gaze at Jesus
Receiving His Salvation
The softer my heart becomes
With His love and forgiveness
I become more like
The One whom I behold
His Spirit flowing through me
Re-creates me in His mould

Acquittal

“Yet through his powerful declaration of acquittal, God freely gives away his righteousness. His gift of love and favour now cascades over us, all because Jesus, the Anointed One, has liberated us from the guilt, punishment, and power of sin!” Romans 3:24 TPT

Jesus, the Anointed One
Has freed us from the guilt of sin
Taken all our punishment
Broken sin’s chains which held us in
So we can receive God’s righteousness
And live a life full of God’s goodness

On the cross as He was dying
Jesus took our sins into him
Took to His death the burden
The body of our sinful person
So we could all be freed
To righteous life through His resurrection

In this public declaration
In His beloved Son’s execution
God revealed His answer to sin
The death that we could take in Him
To free us from sin broken hearts
To kill the power of sin over us

In Jesus’ resurrection
We see God’s public declaration
Of the power of righteous living
To give us the total freedom
To live as God’s beloved Children
In the fullness of His kingdom

When we choose Jesus as our Saviour
His death is ours, from sin to free us
And His righteous resurrection
Gives us our new life and direction
Living life at God’s right hand
Enjoying God’s love, favour and blessing

All this God has freely given
Though His Son’s life it cost Him
His love would not leave humanity broken
Bound in sin, doomed to destruction
Instead He raised them all to heaven
To live the righteousness He’s given

To the suffering of this world
God has provided the only answer
To remake a sin broken people
In the image of His Son Beloved
So we can live His righteousness
Healing this world with His graciousness

Your Righteousness

“This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness—a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says: “We are right with God through life-giving faith!”” Romans 1:17 TPT