"But By The Grace Of GOD--I Am What I Am!"

O how strange--
that GOD should love a worm, 
a dung-hill worm!

(The following is an excerpt from the diary of James Smith)

August 28, 1857.
If some of my congregation knew me better--
they would love me less!
Yet my heavenly FATHER . . .
  knows me well,
  favors me much,
  and loves me wonderfully!

O how strange--
that GOD should love a worm, 
a dung-hill worm--one who . . .
  was bred in sin,
  loved sin,
  felt at home in sin, and
  at times felt regret that he was 
debarred from some sins!

O if GOD had left me to myself--

what would I have been, and 

what would I have done!

"But by the grace of GOD--
I am what I am!" 1 Corinthians 15:10

Surely, surely, I must say, 
that divine love and wisdom 
have planned my path--
from first to last.

I am . . .
  out of Hell,
  on the way to Heaven,
  employed by GOD,
  useful to saints, and
  a blessing to sinners! 

O how wonderful, how wonderful is this!

  
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"Past Finding Out!"