Who can begin to understand
From eternity God’s mysterious plan
To form a being in His likeness
To share with Him eternal kindness
All the riches of His glory
What an amazing redemption story
How from His likeness we all fell
We know the tempter all to well
You can be like God!
Reduced in similitude to a dog
Formed to dwell in the heavenlies
Reduced to mere sensuality
Who can comprehend the gravity
Of our descent into such depravity
Who can imagine what might have been
If our first parents had not sinned
Created like Him to be holy
Living lives of such wasted folly
Creatures formed for immortality
Dominated by such temporality
Intended to live with such purpose
Our sin condemns and curses us
Unbearable hopelessness
Apart from His immeasurable kindness
What it Him cost
To restore our likeness lost
What He in humility became
To end our sin and shame
That we might again become
Restored in the image of the Son
What glorious grace
Poured out on Adam’s helpless race
He humbled Himself, became like us
Holiness took upon Himself our filthiness
Immortality became mortal
Eternity became temporal
He who is like no one
Became like everyone
Became sin
So unlike Him
That we might again
Become like Him
How impossible to comprehend
How can my praises ever end
To Him who became like me
That I might again be
Like Him
Our created end!
