Tune― “Take Me As I Am.”
A JOYFUL sound the Gospel bears, Surpassing sweet to sinners’ ears, In notes majestic it declares
That “God is Light, and Love,”
Yes! God is Light, and Love,
Yes! God is Light, and Love,
Proclaim the sound, the world around,
That “God is Light, and Love.
Light saw the fall, when sin began,
Measured the gulf ‘tween God and man,
Love intervened, that gulf to span,
Oh, wondrous Light and Love!
Incarnate Love came here to die,
Light wrung from Him that bitter cry
“Eli lama sabachthani?”
Unfathomed Light and Love!
Light judged the sin that man had done,
That judgment fell on God’s dear Son;
Love bore the wrath―the victory won―
Grace tells or Light and Love.
On Calvary’s cross Light judged man’s sin,
That sinners now, the veil within,
Might enter, purged, redeemed, and clean,
To dwell in Light and Love.
On that same cross Love bore our sins,
Light’s judgment o’er, new life begins
For each whose heart the Saviour wins,
To trust that Light and Love.
That Light revealed my sin and guilt,
Crushed all the “works” on which I built;
Love spake of blood, which Jesus spilled,
Oh, glorious Light and Love!
That blood is now my only plea,
Christ died for sinners, hence for me,
Drawn by such Love to Him I flee,
To rest in Light and Love.
W. T. P. W.