I like this hymn about the grace of God:
O how the grace of God
Amazes me!
It loosed me from my bonds
And set me free!
What made it happen so?
'Twas His will, this much I know
Set me, as now I show,
At liberty.
2 My God has chosen me,
Though one of nought,
To sit beside my King
In heaven's court.
Hear what my Lord has done,
O the love that made Him run
To meet His erring son!
This has God wrought.
3 Not for my righteousness,
For I have none,
But for His mercy's sake,
Jesus, God's Son,
Suffered on Calvary's tree -
Crucified with thieves was He -
Great was His grace to me,
His wayward one!
4 And when I think of how,
At Calvary,
He bore sin's penalty
Instead of me,
Amazed, I wonder why
He, the sinless One, should die
For one so vile as I:
My Saviour He!
5 Now all my heart's desire
Is to abide
In him, my Saviour dear,
In Him to hide.
My shield and buckler He,
Cov'ring and protecting me:
From Satan's darts I'll be
Safe at His side.
6 Lord Jesus, hear my prayer,
Thy grace impart;
When evil thoughts arise
Through Satan's art,
Oh, drive them all away
And do Thou, from day to day,
Keep me beneath Thy sway,
King of my heart.
7 Come now the whole of me,
Eyes, ears and voice,
Join me, Creation all,
With joyful noise:
Praise Him Who broke the chain
Holding me in sin's domain,
And set me free again!
Sing and rejoice!
E T. Sibomana Tr R. Guillebaud
