Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A Song in the Night

I woke up this morning and this song was rolling around. I don't know why it speaks to me so clearly. It just does.

Particularly these verses:

Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
’Tis life, and health, and peace.

He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me.

To think that Charles Wesley wrote this just a year after he was converted. What a profound understanding of his salvation.

Maybe that's why Oh for a Thousand Tongues to Sing is such a great hymn for me.

I've been reading hymns lately, Oh, I love Hillsong United and I know Jesus is partial to a band consisting of 4 guitars, 2 drummers, 2 keyboards, 3 singers, a sax, 5 banner wavers, radical pyrotechnics and a good light show all played at "11" on the sound system.

But sometimes the words of a great hymn reach me in places I need to be reached.
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2 comments:

  1. Steve Scott12:39 AM

    Hymn #76 in our old hymnal. We got new hymnals and I'm all messed up. "Hear Him, ye deaf, praise Him ye dumb, your loosened tongues employ; ye blind behold your Savior come, and leap ye lame for joy!" That's one of my very favorite verses in all of hymnity.

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  2. Anonymous10:16 AM

    There is not only salvation truth in Wesley's stanzas, but a call to the unevangelized world: "Look unto Him, ye nations, own Your God, ye fallen race. Look and be saved through faith alone, Be justified by grace", and, "See all your sins on Jesus laid; The Lamb of God was slain; His soul was once an offering made For every soul of man." ...... H.

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