This post is directly from Mark Altrogge on the site he and his son Stephen blog on. Mark is a pastor, writer, lyricist  and more. Check out his site at theblazingcenter.com and read everything from the ridiculous to the most worshipful. One little trivial note. Mark has the same birthday (though two years older than my pastor, I wonder if that is why they have similar humor).

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Amaze Me Again

Thank you for your grace, O God
That you would look on me
A wicked sinner
A selfish, uncaring, God-hating sinner
Dead in sin
Enslaved to sin
A putrid-mouthed, foul-hearted sinner
Undesirable, worthless, wandering,
Hopeless, miserable sinner
A stench in your nostrils
Defiled, dirty, polluted, vile, rotten,
Infected sinner
And you would send your beautiful,
Holy, radiant, glorious, pure,
Sinless, obedient Son,
Who loved you infinitely and perfectly
The apple of your eye
To take my richly deserved punishment
To put on my filthy, stinking, leprous rags
As if they were his own
As if he had been the one to spit in your face
As if he had rejected you
And crush the life out of him instead of me,
To pour out hell upon his soul
To abandon him in darkness,
To show him no mercy,
To pour out your grace on me.
O make me amazed, astonished,
And eternally grateful.

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