Merit

All that I was, - my sin, my guilt, My death was all my own; All that I am, - I owe to Thee My gracious God alone. The evil of my former state Was mine, and only mine; The good in which I now rejoice Is Thine, and only Thine. The darkness of my former state, The bondage all was mine ; The light of life in which I walk, The liberty is Thine.