A Sinner and a Saint (Words & Music by Mark Daniels)

A crack in the darkness that hit me like lightning An insight from You that was so grim and fright’ning Something I’d confessed before And I’d often said But now I knew it in my very core It almost struck me dead I thought I was perfect though I’d never say it I preened before others so I could display it Pedestaled, I played my part I had the world fooled And even here inside my hollow heart My self-deception ruled But I’m a sinner and a saint A sinner and a saint A sinner and a saint When grace comes to us in Word and in Sacrament The Spirit gives us faith in Jesus, makes us His saints But until we die to this world and are buried in the ground We still will be sinners (We still will be sinners) Forgiven sinners But we dare not be proud! I’m a sinner and a saint A sinner and a saint I woke up this morning, freed by You and Your grace You died and You rose to give me life in Your place I have nothing that I need to prove You have done it all The sky was cracked, the stone was moved To tear away death’s pall For a sinner and a saint I’m a sinner and a saint By grace, a sinner who’s a saint