Jesus our Lord, who can relate

"For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others."
(2 Corinthians 5:19 NLT)

The original version of this hymn, written for Holy Week, appeared as no.15 in my first collection Treasures Old and New (1989). It was entitled 'At Calvary', and the tune I had in mind was HIS HANDS WERE PIERCED. The last of the three verses was:
"How can we ever tell the grace
that brought the Saviour down from Heaven?
But, since he suffered in our place,
our joy's complete, our sin's forgiven."
The lyric had some poor rhymes and excessive inversions - especially in  verse 2 - which I could not improve on satisfactorily without some radical changes, and yet I did not want to abandon it altogether.  Meanwhile I had become increasingly struck by the thought that all three persons of the Trinity were active in God's plan for our deliverance from sin. Far from struggling to understand how the Father could be so cruel to his Son as to send him to die, surely we can be eternally grateful that he should have been willing to give his own holy Son, more dearly beloved than we could ever imagine, over to a death of such indignity and anguish ‘for our sake and for our salvation’. For any who may prefer the events featured in the hymn not to extend beyond Holy Week, an alternative final verse could be:
"God of the cross, that ransom sealed
your Covenant pledge, and brought release:
so may a world still broken yield
to Christ, and find eternal peace."

Note that the reference 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 could then be replaced by Mark 10:45.