"Not What My Hands"

Some Tuesday Thoughts...

I love discovering a really great new song. 

Thanks to Pastor JD for introducing this one to our church Sunday evening! 

Praise God for grace! 

Praise God for salvation! 

Me--a guilty sinner-- 
I now wear the righteousness of Christ. 

I hope and pray that I never get over this.

I love old texts.

This one is beautiful and so rich in truth.

I have loved and been greatly blessed from writings by Horatius Bonar.

So thankful this one has been set to new music so it can be cherished by a new generation.

Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul;
not what my toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God;
not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load.

These guilty hands are raised, filthy rags are all I bring
And I have come to hide beneath your wings
These holy hands are raised, Washed in the fountain of your grace
And now I wear your righteousness

Thy work alone oh Christ can ease this weight of sin
Thy blood alone, oh Lamb of God, can give me peace within
Thy Love to me, oh God, not mine oh Lord to Thee
Can rid me of this dark unrest and set my Spirit free

Thy grace alone oh God to me can pardon speak
Thy power alone oh Lamb of God can this sore bondage break
No other work save thine, no other blood will do
No strength but that which is divine can bear me safely through

I praise the God of grace; I trust his truth and might
He calls me his, I call him mine, My God, my Joy, my Light
My Lord has saved my life and freely pardon gives;
I love because he first loved me, I live because he lives.