Known By The Scars - Michael Card

Mother Mary cried

As she held heaven in her arms

For the shadow of the scar

She saw was clear

As her own bewildered baby

Lay weeping for the world

Whose frightened tears

Would free us all from fear

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars

For a time He sought

To tell the world He was the Way

That God the father had a human heart

With His own holy hands He sought

To touch and heal their scars

But they chose to tear

Those gentle hands apart

No one was there

To wipe away the tears

That burned the holy eyes of God

As He looked upon

His one and only Son

Who’d never sinned nor lied

Yet was crucified

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars

And after they had slain Him

And laid Him in the grave

And the ones He loved

Had fled into the dark

Then love and power raised Him

And God won the victory

But they only recognized Him

By the scars

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars

The marks of death

That God chose never to erase

The wounds of love’s eternal war

When the kingdom comes

With its perfected sons

He will be known by the scars