I am not skilled to understand

I am not skilled to understand

What God hath willed

what God hath planned;

I only know at His right hand

Stands One who is my Savior.

I take Him at His word indeed:

“Christ died for sinners”—this I read;

For in my heart I find a need

Of Him to be my Savior!

That He should leave His place on high

And come for sinful man to die

You count it strange? So once did I

Before I knew my Savior!

And

oh

that He fulfilled may see

The travail of His soul in me

And with His work contented be

As I with my dear Savior!

Yes

living

dying

let me bring

My strength

my solace from this spring—

That He who lives to be my King

Once died to be my Savior!