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What Wondrous Cause

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One of the mysteries of God's love for us is why He loves us at all! Romans 9:12-13 shows that God chooses to love us before we were even born, knowing full well that we would turn our backs on Him and spurn His gracious will to worship the God of self. This hymn writer captures this truth beautifully. In order to extend and encapsulate this idea in a chorus, Ephesians 2:5 was used: "In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will". We have no other reason given in God's Word as to why He chose to love us - and we can rest content in that.

Lyrics

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Verse 1:
What wondrous cause could move Your heart / What wondrous cause could move Thy heart
To take my sin and grace impart? / To take on Thee my curse and smart?
When long before my birth you knew / When Thou foreknewest I should be
How cold and lax I'd be towards You. / So cold and negligent to Thee?

Chorus: / Chorus: (new)
What wondrous truth - You love me still!
For no other cause but the kindness of Your will.

Verse 2:
The cause was love, I sink with shame
Before my sacred Jesus' name,
That you would bleed on Calv'ry's tree / That Thou should bleed and slaughter'd be,
Because of Your great love for me. / Because, because Thou lovedst me.

Verse 3:
You loved me, oh what boundless grace! / Thou lovedst me, oh boundless grace!
Who can such wondrous mercy trace!
I, who unfaithful, foolish am,
Yet find You still a patient lamb.

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