I AM COMING TO THE CROSS

I am coming to the cross;
I am poor and weak and blind;
I am counting all but dross;
I shall full salvation find.

Refrain
I am trusting, Lord, in Thee.
Blessed Lamb of Calvary;
Humbly at Thy cross I bow.
Save me, Jesus, save me now.

Long my heart has sighed for Thee;
Long has evil reigned within;
Jesus sweetly speaks to me:
“I will cleanse you from all sin.” Refrain

Here I give my all to Thee:
Friends and time and earthly store;
Soul and body Thine to be,
Wholly Thine forevermore. Refrain

Jesus comes! He fills my soul!
Perfected in Him I am;
I am every whit made whole:
Glory, glory to the Lamb! Refrain

About the writer: William McDonald, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Belmont, Maine in 1820. He served various pastoral charges in the North and West and was, for several years, the editor of the Christian Witness. From 1870 until his death he did much evangelistic work. He was the publisher of several small volumes of hymns for social worship. He died in 1901.

Key Verse: I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So I live my life in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. –Galatians 2:20