499--Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!

Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!

499

	1.	Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!
		The Christ who's all within me lives.
		With Him I have been crucified;
		This glorious fact to me He gives.
		Now it's no longer I that live,
		But Christ the Lord within me lives.
	2.	Oh, what a Joy! Oh, what a rest!
		Christ now is being formed in me.
		His very nature and life divine
		In my whole being inwrought shall be.
		All that I am came to an end,
		And all of Christ is all to me.
	3.	Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast!
		Christ shall in me be magnified.
		In nothing shall I be ashamed,
		For He in all shall be applied.
		In woe or blessing death or life,
		Through me shall Christ be testified.
	4.	Oh, what a prize! Oh, what a gain!
		Christ is the goal toward which I press.
		Nothing I treasure, nor aught desire,
		But Christ of all-inclusiveness.
		My hope, my glory, and my crown
		Is Christ, the One of peerlessness.
		(Repeat the last two lines of each stanza)