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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
D
About this Hymn
The redemption story sometimes seems incomprehensible. Why would a perfect, invincible God choose to die a gruesome death, clothed in frail flesh, especially for people who did not love him? This is the beauty and wonder of the work of Christ. "Oh, light the flame within my heart, and I will love thee more and more!"
Lyrics
Verse 1
It is a thing most wonderful, almost too wonderful to be, that God's own Son should come from heav'n, and die to save a child like me.
Verse 2
And yet I know that it is true: he chose a poor and humble lot, and wept and toiled and mourned and died for love of those who loved him not.
Verse 3
It is most wonderful to know his love for me so free and sure; but 'tis more wonderful to see my love for him so faint and poor.
Verse 4
And yet I want to love thee, Lord; oh, light the flame within my heart, and I will love thee more and more, until I see thee as thou art.
It is a thing most wonderful, almost too wonderful to be, that God's own Son should come from heav'n, and die to save a child like me.
Verse 2
And yet I know that it is true: he chose a poor and humble lot, and wept and toiled and mourned and died for love of those who loved him not.
Verse 3
It is most wonderful to know his love for me so free and sure; but 'tis more wonderful to see my love for him so faint and poor.
Verse 4
And yet I want to love thee, Lord; oh, light the flame within my heart, and I will love thee more and more, until I see thee as thou art.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: William Walsham How, 1872, rev. 1883
Music: English folk melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906
Music: English folk melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906