# Lord’s Day Hymn – “I live because He lives”

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2008/10/12/lords-day-hymn-i-live-because-he-lives/
- Published: 2008-10-12T22:38:43-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Not What My Hands Have Done”
 By Horatius Bonar, 1861

Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul;
 Not what my toiling flesh 
has borne can make my spirit whole. Not what I feel or do can give me peace with
God; Not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load.

Your voice alone, O Lord, can speak to me of grace;
 Your power alone, O Son of 
God, can all my sin erase. No other work but Yours, no other blood will do; No strength
but that which is divine can bear me safely through.

Thy work alone, O Christ, can ease this weight of sin;
 Thy blood alone, O Lamb 
of God, can give me peace within. Thy love to me, O God, not mine, O Lord, to Thee,
Can rid me of this dark unrest, And set my spirit free.

I bless the Christ of God; I rest on love divine;
 And with unfaltering lip and 
heart I call this Savior mine. His cross dispels each doubt; I bury in His tomb 
Each thought of unbelief and fear, each lingering shade of gloom.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might;
 He calls me His, I call
Him mine, My God, my joy and light. ’Tis He Who saveth me, and freely pardon gives;
I love because He loveth me, I live because He lives.

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## Comments

### By: Scotti

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2008/10/12/lords-day-hymn-i-live-because-he-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-2480
- Published: 2008-10-12T22:53:33-05:00

Simply beautiful and so encouraging!