I really like the words to this song that we sing at Church. I like it because it brings out the idea that with my own strength I cannot fulfill God’s Laws nor can I attain His righteousness. But through Christ this is fulfilled in me.
Sung by Randy Swiggum and Margaret Jenks.
To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,To hear His pardoning voice,
Changes a slave into a child
And duty into choice.
1. No strength of nature can suffice
To serve the Lord aright,
And what she has, she misapplies,
For want of clearer light.
2. How long beneath the Law I lay
In bondage and distress.
I toiled the precept to obey,
But toiled without success.
3. Then to abstain from outward sin
Was more than I could do.
Now if I feel its power within,
I feel I hate it too.
4. Then all my servile works were done,
A righteousness to raise.
Now, freely chosen in the Son,
I freely choose His ways.
Love Constraining to Obedience: Words by William Cowper (1731-1800), Music by Kevin Twit ©1998 Kevin Twit Music.
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