Lord, Say the Word, And I’ll Be Healed

Lord, say the Word, and I’ll be healed –

Speak, and my guilt will leave me;

In love that Your blest death revealed,

In mercy, Christ, receive me.

I only need to hear from You,

And I see You make all things new

By pow’r by which You’re living.

 

I don’t deserve that You should come;

Your presence I can’t merit;

Yet You can claim my heart Your home

By sending Your sweet Spirit

In but a word from God’s own heart,

By which You will to me impart

The faith that Your death saves me. 

 

I tell my child to go, it goes;

You tell my guilt to leave me,

Since You are Lord of lords, who knows

All that can hurt and grieve me.

Of sin and death you are the Lord,

You rule Your kingdom with Your Word

That conquers all that ails me. 

 

Draw me to see in every loss

What Your pure lips are saying,

And to behold beneath the cross

The grace for which I’m praying;

How from a body bearing sin

Flow words that give me life within

With blood that still sustains me. 

            1/17/22