Just as a little add-on to Trey’s Assurance of Salvation series he has recently posted, I encourage you to give the old hymn Blessed Assurance as listen. I’ve found it’s a great song to sing when I’m having doubts about my faith. (Though I would prescribe worship to any number of spiritual conditions…actually, all of them.) Anyway, here are the words:
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels, descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.written in 1873 by Fanny J. Crosby
My favorite arrangement of this song is by Jadon Lavik, off of his CD “Roots Run Deep.” Here’s the recording, complete with lyrics and random background pictures. (I recommend the CD!)
What is/are your favorite hymn(s)?
Good hymn. I like it.
Favorite old hymns (in other words, this excludes Townend/Keith Getty):
1. Be Thou My Vision
2. Man of Sorrows
3. Nothing But the Blood
…to name a few–there’s so many hymns full of amazing truth that, as Jonathan Edwards calls it, stir up lofty religious affections.
My faves:
1. It Is Well
2. Be Thou My Vision
*Some* of my faves
1. Be Thou My Vision
2. ‘Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus
3. Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
4. Power in the Blood
5. It is Well
1. Be Thou My Vision
2. This is My Father’s World
3. His Eye is on the Sparrow
4. As the Deer
5. All Creatures of Our God and King
6. I Need Thee Every Hour
7. All Things Bright and Beautiful
8. It is Well With My Soul
9. The King of Love My Shepherd Is
10. I Come to the Garden Alone
1. Beneath the Cross of Jesus
2. It is Well
3. How Great Thou Art
4. The Sands of Time are Sinking
5. Man of Sorrows
6. Be Thou My Vision
7. This is My Father’s World
8. Power in the Blood
9. Come Ye Sinners
10. As The Deer
Apparently everyone likes Be Thou My Vision! That’s cool, it’s a great hymn.
Here are some of my favorites:
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- Amazing Grace
- As the Deer
- Come Ye Sinners
- How Great Thou Art