How Sweet & Aweful

How sweet and aweful is the place
where Christ resides within
and shelters me with boundless grace
and rescues me from sin

How kind it is to know my Lord
to tarry with Him still
to know that He will guide my hand
be pleased to do His will

How sweet and aweful is the place
of mystery sublime
where Christ beholds the human race
in single point of time

and midst the crowd of ageless race
as boundless as the sea
He looks to me and sees my face
and knows He ransomed me

So nothing past nor present still
can pull me from His side
but only wound that He may heal
with blood drawn from His side

So I will linger all the more
where sin and doubt remain
and learn to pray, in ‘creasing faith
in Jesus’ mighty name