Hymn 129
John Newton
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My grace is sufficient for thee.
2Cor 12:9161 Oppressed with unbelief and sin, Fightings without, and fears within; While earth and hell, with force combined, Assault and terrify my mind. | What strength have I against such foes, Such hosts and legions to oppose? Alas! I tremble, faint, and fall, LORD save me, or I give up all. | Thus sorely pressed I sought the LORD, To give me some sweet cheering word; Again I sought, and yet again, I waited long, but not in vain. | O! ’twas a cheering word indeed! Exactly suited to my need; “Sufficient for thee is my grace, Thy weakness my great pow’r displays.” | Now despond and mourn no more, I welcome all I feared before; Though weak I’m strong, though troubled blest, For CHRIST’S own pow’r shall on me rest. | My grace would soon exhausted be, But his is boundless as the sea; Then let me boast with holy Paul, That I am nothing, CHRIST is all. | |