I'm glad that you are able to embrace it now, my friend. :)

I actually wrote the song in 1979, but I changed the words of one line somewhere around 1984. I've heard numerous people criticize changing the words of a song after it's been written, as if it's somehow sacrosanct to do so, but I wasn't about to keep a line that would lead people into frustration.

The current line is: When Christ was raised up from the dead, he raised us up with him so we could walk in newness of life.

The original line was: Until you come to count upon the fact that this is true, you cannot walk in newness of life.

At the time, I had been influenced by a premise put forth by some grace teachers who heavily emphasized the "reckoning" as found in Romans 6 in such a way as to create a formula that claims until believers came to count upon the fact that our death, burial, and resurrection with him was true, we could not walk in newness of life. I mean, it sounds pretty good when viewed doctrinally, but I didn't realize until later how this totally clashed with the reality of it all being true simply because Christ had done it.

There was another line that could have used some tweaking, but it really wasn't that big of a deal. Anyhow, I know you didn't ask for all that, but your comment triggered the memory. :)
Jim