Freed from Sin

Inside I’m like a shattered potter’s jar;
Undone am I who God our Father made.
My worthless pieces should be cast afar,
Fit only to be scattered in sin’s grave.

But then I see a light invade my night
And in it see a nail-pierced human hand
Pick up my pieces and wash off my blight–
Again put me together as a man.

But man I see is new, is not old me,
With pieces sealed together by His Blood;
Now I am one He meant for me to be
In new creation born in Noah’s flood.

All earth has been by His own bleeding cleansed
And rises new from flood as it abates,
For He has freed us and all earth from sin
To make earth fit to be His heaven’s gate.

New heaven and new earth for us appear
With gate of earth to heaven opened wide
As earth no longer governed by her fears–
Gives heaven welcome to with her abide.