Only Jesus

By Rhiannonw

Sun, 14 Jul 2019
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[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

Only Jesus could pay debt
of punishment we’d earned.
Only he has righteousness
to cover us – adorned,
protected, clean, with beauty
to come before God’s throne,
clothed in his perfect goodness:
I trust in Christ alone.

Only Jesus can improve
my ingrained poor ways –
Teacher sculpting, sanctifies,
through all my earthly days;
for though he is my Saviour,
in this life I’ll still slip,
but what he’s started he’ll complete
and holds me in safe grip.

Only Jesus, he alone
can  help and save us all,
only Jesus Christ alone:
for love and mercy call.

Tune: 76 76 irr, – 'All things bright and beautiful' by William Monnk (the first four lines of the tune are repeated at the end.

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Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Another nice hymn verse and I sang it to myself as I was reading along. Lovely.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jean. I havent always searched out or used a known metre/tune recently, and I was thinking, 'Jean's back, do I know a tune that would fit these words?' and was surprised that with a bit of tweaking, the lines I'd been working on fitted that tune, and had been improved by the extra work really. Rhiannon