He left his home of perfect light

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Isaiah 53:3
  • Matthew 11:19
  • Matthew 8:20
  • Matthew 9:11
  • Mark 15:24
  • Mark 2:16
  • Luke 15:1-2
  • Luke 3:23-38
  • Luke 5:30
  • Luke 9:58
  • John 1:11
  • Acts 3:15
  • 2 Corinthians 8:9
  • Galatians 2:20
  • 1 Timothy 6:16
  • 1 John 1:5-7
Book Number:
  • 394

He left his home of perfect light
and came to earth in poverty,
to live with sinners lost in night,
for me.

2. Throughout his life of thirty years
no man was hated more than he;
he bore rejection, pain and tears
for me.

3. In agony, he bled and died,
from sin and guilt to set me free;
the Lord of life was crucified
for me.

© Author
Stephen Crowter

The Son - His Life and Ministry

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Tune

  • Grace
    Grace
    Metre:
    • 88 82
    Composer:
    • Ninnis, Peter James

The story behind the hymn

Stephen Crowter’s text of characteristic simplicity was written at his home in Coventry one Sunday evening in Jan 1987, as response to a sermon preached and heard that day. Like 561 it appears here in print for the first time; it entered CH in 2004. The phrase ‘thirty years’ depends on Luke 3:23, while Galatians 2:20 is among other texts which suggested the hymn.

By request of the music team, Peter Ninnis wrote his tune GRACE for these words in the late 1990s.

A look at the author

Crowter, Stephen James

b Hastings, E Sussex 1968. BSc in Chemistry and Business Studies; he currently runs his own business in Coventry, ‘Surecar Consultants’, sourcing cars to order. His first hymns were written in the late 1980s, usually on Sunday evenings in response to a sermon. The first to be published are those in Praise!, one of which also features in CH (2004 edn); among other writings is his part-autobiographical Surprise Package: When God wrecks our plans (2003). He belongs to Lower Ford St Baptist Ch in Coventry, W Midlands. His brother Philip (Phil) was a Baptist pastor and internationally-known writer of Bible notes who died in 2008 at the age of 46. Nos.394, 561, 1004, 1030, 1035, 1056, 1095, 5013.