Life through Christ alone

In Christ alone my hope is found;

He is my light, my strength, my song.

This cornerstone, this solid ground--

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.

What heights of love, what depths of peace.

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease,

My Comforter, my All in all

Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone, who took on flesh,

Fullness of God in helpless babe.

This gift of love and righteousness,

Scorned by the ones he came to save.

Til on that cross, as Jesus died,

The wrath of God was satisfied,

For every sin on Him was laid.

Here in the death of Christ I live.

There in the ground His body lay,

Light of the world by darkness slain.

Then bursting forth, in glorious day,

Up from the grave He rose again.

And as He stands in victory,

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me.

For I am His, and He is mine,

Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

No guilt in life, no fear in death--

This is the power of Christ in me.

From life's first cry to final breath,

Jesus commands my destiny.

No power of hell, no scheme of man

Can ever pluck me from His hand.

Till He returns or calls me home,

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

The verses to "In Christ Alone," a hymn by the Gettys, walks through the amazing miracle of redemption. I think my favorite line from this hymn is "here in the death of Christ I live." It seems so backwards that we can live because of a death. But it's the truth!  His death has brought us life...and even the pain and permanence of death could not hold God down.  Life is yet more powerful!