Grace alone, by grace alone
not what we do for God
living by faith,
by him justified
In Christ we live again.
His walk up Calvary’s hill
ascending the cross
nothing I have done in his name
these are the means
of my new life
my acts alone in vain.
February 4, 2010
Habakkuk 2:4
and Day 139, “Living by Faith”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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