Not By Hands

Ephesians 2:8-9 Titus 3:5 John 1:16 Romans 3:24 2 Corinthians 3:18 Romans 8:29 Philippians 1:6 Galatians 2:20 Galatians 5:1 Romans 8:1 Romans 5:8 1 John 4:19 Romans 11:6 We came with our record Our ledger of days Convinced that the threshold Required what we'd made But mercy was waiting Before we could speak Not counting our offerings Not tallying our deeds Every ladder we've climbed Every price we have paid Was never the currency Grace ever made Not by hands — not by striving Not the sum of all we've done Not the weight of our devotion Not the heights that we have come It was finished — it was given Before we knew to ask Free and full and undeserving This is grace — this is grace We thought He wanted a resume Of righteous and clean But He loved us not because we were lovable But because He is Love — He is everything We came in our performance He came in our place Not rewarding our religion But rewriting our name Every ladder we've climbed Every price we have paid Was never the currency Grace ever made Not by hands — not by striving Not the sum of all we've done Not the weight of our devotion Not the heights that we have come It was finished — it was given Before we knew to ask Free and full and undeserving This is grace — this is grace Let me find Your light in my darkness Your life in my death Your riches in my poverty Your glory in my valley You are not building a cottage You are making a palace You knocked out the walls I was hiding behind To come and live in the place You are not rewarding performance You are transforming a life From one degree of glory To the next — until I look like Christ I am accepted — therefore I obey I am beloved — before I find the way It is not I who lives But Christ who lives in me And what He has begun He will finish — He will finish Not by hands — not by striving Not the sum of all we've done Not the weight of our devotion Not the heights that we have come It was finished — it was given Before we knew to ask Free and full and undeserving This is grace — this is grace Transforming — not demanding Sanctifying — not enslaving From the inside — not performance This is grace — this is grace Grace upon grace Grace upon grace From His fullness we have received Grace upon grace —————————————————————— © Extolle Alleluia — Original Worship Music All Scripture references listed in description above