I AM WHAT I AM

I AM WHAT I AM

I am not what I ought to be — ah, how imperfect and deficient!

I am not what I wish to be — I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! 

I am not what I hope to be — soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection.

 

Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, 

I can truly say, I am not what I once was; ---- a slave to sin and Satan; 

And I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge,

 "By the grace of God I am what I am."

--John Newton (Hymn writer- Amazing Grace)