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Lord, what am I? I once for answer sought - As he is, so are we (James George Deck/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

As he is, so are we.

"As he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4,17)

1. Lord, what am I?   I once for answer sought
  back to my birth of Adam's guilty race;
defiled by nature, every word and thought
  and deed of mine but told of my disgrace.
Far better had I been a thing of nought,
  than fill in this dark world the highest place. PDF - Midi

2. Now what am I?   I turn my eyes away
  from all the loathsomeness I feel within;
upon thy head my hands by faith I lay,
  the spotless Victim that hath born my sin:
oh, wondrous grace, that did the guiltless slay,
  that the poor sinner might through thee be clean!

3. Lord, what am I?   A sinner justified, –
  the ransom of my soul thy precious blood;
a vessel to thy Father sanctified;
  a king – a priest – a son – an heir of God!
In thee accepted, loved, and glorified –
  I stagger at the thought: ... it seems too good!

4. Lord, what am I?   I look within the veil;
  I am  i n  thee – " a s  t h o u  a r t ,  s o  a m  I " –
loved with a love that cannot tire or fail,
  fruit of thy travail and soul's agony:
against thy counsels what can e'er prevail?
  My rest, my home, are with thee in the sky.

James George Deck, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1906, 85.

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