Verse 1

Oh! 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.

Verse 2

My God has chosen me, though one of naught,

To sit beside my King, in heaven’s court;

Hear what my Lord hath done,

Oh the love that made Him run:

To meet His erring son, this hath God wrought.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 5

Now all my heart’s desire, is to abide,

In Him my Saviour dear, in Him to hide;

My shield and buckler He,

Covering and protecting me:

From Satan’s darts I’ll be, safe at His side.

Verse 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.