Hymn for Lent 1B

“O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” # 485 New Century Hymnal

1. O Love that will not let me go,

    I rest my weary soul in you;

    I give you back the life I owe,

    That in your ocean depths its flow

    May swell with ardor true.

2. O Light that follows all my way,

    to you I yield my flickering flame;

    Renew my spirit’s feeble ray,

    That from your brilliant sunlit day

    It may new brightness claim.

3. O joy that seeks me through my pain,

    to you, I can not close my heart;

    I trace the rainbow through the rain,

    And know the promise is not vain

    That you will ne’er depart.

4. O Cross that raises up my head,

    from you I dare not seek to flee;

    I lay in dust glory life’ glory dead,

    Life’s glories whiter and are dead

    from the ground there blossoms red

    Life that shall endless be.