Christ the Preeminent

It is no longer I who live,
But it is Christ who lives in me;
No longer I, yet in me lives
Christ the Preeminent.

Christ makes His home now in our hearts—
He makes His home in us through faith;
Spread into all our inward parts,
Christ the Preeminent.

As always, even now, yes, now,
Christ will be magnified in me;
Through life or death I would express
Christ the Preeminent.

The hope of glory—Christ in us,
Indwelling us our hope to be,
To be our life, our love, our all—
Christ the Preeminent.