GHS 56 : I Love, I Love My Master Lyrics

GHS 56, “I Love, I Love My Master,” is a hymn of joyful, voluntary bondage to Christ. Its scriptural background is the Old Testament law of the willing servant in Exodus 21:5-6, where a Hebrew slave who had served his time could choose to remain with his master out of love rather than leave as a free person. The hymn takes that image and makes it personal: the singer has been redeemed at a price, has experienced the sweetness of this service, and will not go out free. This is not servitude but the highest freedom, the choice to remain with the One who loved and gave Himself.

This hymn appears as number 56 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa.

Hymn Lyrics – GHS 56: I Love, I Love My Master

I love, I love my Master, I will not go out free! For He is my Redeemer; He paid the price for me. I would not leave His service, It is so sweet and blest; And in the weariest moments He gives the truest rest.

1. My Master shed His life-blood My vassal life to win, And save me from the bondage Of tyrant self and sin. He chose me for His service, And gave me power to choose That blessed, perfect freedom, Which I shall never lose.

2. I would not halve my service, His only it must be! His only — Who so loved me, And gave Himself for me. Rejoicing and adoring, Henceforth my song shall be — “I love, I love my Master, I will not go out free!”