Sunday, August 16, 2009

By Your Grace Alone

A sinful man, a fallen human, I;
My foolishness, I see, has only grown,
And I can do no thing but humbly cry:
"No good in me but by Your grace alone."
Day after day I fail and fail again.
Try as I might, my filthy rags have blown
Like leaves and I am left in all my pain;
I would have died but by Your grace alone.
I try to do the things I think are right,
But in the end I wish I might have known!
I failed again, bemoaning now my plight;
I could have conquered by Your grace alone.
Now, nothing left but here before Your throne,
I bow and say, "It's by Your grace alone."

1 comment:

  1. Psalm 130
    Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
    O Lord, hear my voice!
    Let your ears be attentive
    to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

    If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could stand?
    But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.

    I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
    and in his word I hope;
    my soul waits for the Lord
    more that watchmen for the morning,
    more than watchmen for the morning.

    O Israel, hope in the Lord!
    For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
    and with him is plentiful redemption.
    And he will redeem Israel
    from all his iniquities.

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