Not What These Hands Have Done

Lyrics by Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) and Music by Carlie Fenne ‘Lead Me To Calvary’ by Jennie Evelyn Hussey (1874-1958)

“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.”

Titus 3:5

Verse 1

Not what these hands have done can save this guilty soul

Not what this toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole

Verse 2

Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God

Not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load

Chorus 1

Thy work alone O Christ can ease this weight of sin

Thy blood alone O Lamb of God can give me peace within, peace within

Verse 3

Thy love to me O God not my poor love to Thee

Can rid me of this dark unrest and set my spirit free

Verse 4

Thy grace alone O God to me can pardon speak

Thy pow’r alone O Son of God can this sore bondage break

Chorus 2

I bless the Christ of God I rest on love divine

And with unfalt’ring lip and heart I call this Saviour mine, I call Him mine

Outro

Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget Thine agony

Lest I forget Thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary

Lyrics by Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) and Music by Carlie Fenne

‘Lead Me To Calvary’ by Jennie Evelyn Hussey (1874-1958)