February 13, 2016 (Saturday)
Isaac Watts wrote 600 hymns, many of which we love to sing today. He wrote this one in 1707, 309 years ago.
Fannie Crosby attended a Methodist revival meeting at the age of 31, and heard this hymn, written 144 years before she heard it that day. At the close of the service, as this song was sung, she prayed the last line, “Here, Lord, I give myself away, ’tis all that I can do.”
Fannie wrote 8,000 hymns. Her songs have blessed the hearts of untold thousands of people. I remember her most for the glorious, “Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine.”
AT THE CROSS
Written by Isaac Watts
as “Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed”
1707
Alas! and did my Savior bleed?
And did my Sov’reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
Was it for sins that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker, died
For man the creature’s sin.
Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.
But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give my self away
Tis all that I can do.
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