Posted in Bible, philosophy, poem, uncategorized, worship, tagged guiding from darkness into light, He is absolute King, He will save us, He’s always right, laws of comfort not fright, our Judge”, our King, our Lawgiver, the Lord on February 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
– eab, 2/7/09 (inside quotations mark – exact words of Isa 33.22)
Posted in poem, today in history, worship, tagged ", "Amazing Grace", "God Moves in Mysterious Ways", "O For a Closer Walk with God", "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", aching void, back-fence neighbor, dearest idol, Holy Dove, I hate the sins, Jesus and His Word, John Newton, peaceful hours, return, the Lord, the world, today in history, wrote today on December 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“O For a Closer Walk with God” (stanza 2-5)
Where is the blessedness I knew,
When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul refreshing view
Of Jesus and His Word?
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn
And drove Thee from my breast.
The dearest idol I have known,
Whate’er that idol be
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee.
William Cowper on this very date wrote this hymn. He was a back-fence neighbor to John Newton (“Amazing Grace”). Cowper also penned “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood” “God Moves in Mysterious Ways” and sixty-some more hymns.
Posted in converted to Christ, poem, today in history, uncategorized, worship, tagged 1850, age 30, bled, cloud, converted today, crucified, died, eternal salvation, Francis Jane Crosby, Jesus, light, Methodist revival, our sorrows, poem, praise, Redeemer, rock, sins, star in my life, suffered, the Lord, thousands of hymns, today in history on November 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“Praise Him! Praise Him!” (stanza 2)
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer!
For our sins He suffered, and bled, and died.
He our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! hail Him! Jesus the Crucified.
Sound His praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows,
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong.
Francis Jane Crosby wrote thousands of hymns in her later life. She is credited with 8000. She did not write her first one until she was 45 years of age. This means within 50 years she wrote 8000 hymns (an average of 160 a year or about three a week. What a writer!
Fanny was religious as a youth but was soundly converted to Jesus at a Methodist revival at age thirty. She said of this day, “The Lord planted a star in my life and no cloud has ever obscured the light.”
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