1  Once far from God and dead in sin,

       No light my heart could see;

    But in God's Word the light I found,

       Now Christ liveth in me.

 2  As rays of light from yonder sun,

       The flow'rs of earth set free,

    So life and light and love come forth

       From Christ living in me.

 3  As lives the flow'r within the seed,

       As in the cone the tree,

    So, praise the Christ of truth and grace,

       His Spirit dwelleth in me.

 4  With longing all my heart is filled,

       That like Him I may be,

    As on the wondrous thought I dwell

       That Christ liveth in me.