Far From the Lord I Wander’d Long

  

1. Far from the Lord I wander’d long
In enchantments of time and place,
Sunk deep in my sins, immers’d in wrong,
Forgetting a Saviour’s grace.

Refrain
O, Jesus, dear Lord, my heart
Is opening now the door,
Come in today, come forever to stay,
My life to be, evermore! (Amen)

2. Grieving for Adam’s dying seed
In the bondage of sin and shame,
From glories of heav’n to meet our need,
In pity the Saviour came.

3. Mockery’s cirmson cloth He wore,
And His crown was a crown of throrn,
And, high on the cross, the pains He bore
The sins of a world have borne!

4. Folly and sin of humankind!
So unwilling our Lord to know,
We wander our deserts, faint and blind!
How long shall we scorn Him so