O BLESSED GIFT OF FAITH        Don Fortner

 

(Tune: Stand Up and Bless The Lord  #33 SM)

 

Once to the law I looked

For hope, but found instead

Its' holiness and just demands

Pronounced this sinner dead.

 

Then grace revealed to me

The sin-atoning Lamb!

Convinced that He could save my soul,

To Christ, by faith, I came.

 

Looking to Christ, I saw

God's justice satisfied;

The Spirit, speaking through His blood,

Declared, "You're justified!"

 

By faith I know God's Son

Is my atoning Priest;

Trusting alone what Christ has done,

My heart has now found rest.

 

O blessed gift of faith,

The gift of God's free grace;

Knowing the source of salvation,

It gives Jehovah praise!