Note: For Holy Trinity Sunday, stanzas 3 or 6 can be left out. For Roodmas (Holy Cross Day), stanzas 1-2 and/or 7 can be left out.
This hymn is not great, so suggestions are most welcome.
Tune: The hymn is written in Common Meter. CONSOLATION, LSB 342, would work well.
God made a perfect paradise,
Yet Eve and Adam sinned.
This great disease infected all:
One must be born again.
This second birth is from above,
Of water, Spirit, Word,
Into the Name of Jesus Christ,
Both Son of Man and Lord.
Like Moses lifted up the snake,
Man's Son is lifted high,
That all believers in the Lord
May live and never die.
For this is how God loved the world:
He gave His only Son,
That they should perish not, but live,
Who trust in Him alone.
God sent His Son into the world
Not to condemn but save;
And thru His Name we are made whole
In the baptismal wave.
Now when, in Christ, we do the truth,
We come into the light,
So all the world may clearly see
The Father's glory bright.
O Holy Spirit, grant us grace
To show our neighborhood
The life and health and love God gave
Upon the Holy Rood.
May God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Holy Ghost
Be prais'd now and forevermore
By people coast to coast.
MDS, 2012
