Most of the time I love the new worship music and artists, but I will admit that there are times when I simply miss the old hymns. Last night before I went to bed, I was listening to David Phelps sing one of the verses of “There is a Fountain” on a Gaither video. [William Cowper, pub.1772]
That hymn begins with the marvelous truth that “there is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains.”
But it is that marvelous fourth verse that makes me weep every time. “E’er since by faith I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die: And shall be till I die, And shall be till I die; Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.”
Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die.
Redeeming love has been my theme since 1973. I will proclaim God’s Redeeming Love forever … in this life and throughout eternity.
I was lost. A sinner. Hopeless. Full of guilt and shame. Stumbling through life without the knowledge of God and then He miraculously opened my eyes and brought me close. He found me. He took away my sin and shame. He brought an eternal hope.
I am a child of God … those very words flood my soul with love. His Redeeming Love …. His Redeeming Love.