I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know at His right hand
Is One who is my Saviour!
I take Him at His word indeed:
“Christ died for sinners” — this I
For in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Saviour! read;
That He should leave His place on high,
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? — so once did I,
Before I knew my Saviour!
And oh, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Saviour!
Yea, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring —
That lie who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Saviour!