'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.
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.
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.
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!
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!'
Emmanuel T Sibomana
