Tune:  Amazing Grace…

I don’t have tears enough to cry
ov’ r sinners’ endless pride,
as they with every spoken lie
with Satan brashly side!

He keeps them chained with blinded minds
that prince of all deceit,
their thoughts he to his power binds
with charms though bittersweet!

Yet he is but a disarmed foe,
in Christ he’ s powerless,
the cross was his defeat we know,
that boldly we confess!

As sheep we’ re slaughtered for His sake,
we conquerors are still,
and so we much of Christ will make
and yield to His good will!

The tears He soon will wipe away,
the mockery will end,
nay, nothing then will down us weigh,
for we on Christ depend!

Yakima, WA, USA, Sept. 17, 2013 – jn