Sunday's Hymn

We sang this hymn in our church service today.

My Jesus I Love Thee

My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I love Thee because Thou has first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree.
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I’ll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

—Will­iam R. Fea­ther­ston

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I searched YouTube for a video performance of this hymn and found this one in Chinese Mandarin, which I immediately recognized as the same arrangement that my choir sings. I uploaded a recording of us singing it last summer and you can download the mp3 here. Yes, you, too, can listen to two different choirs in two different languages do exactly the same thing one right after the other. My son declared the experience “slightly bizarre.” I just call it interesting.

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Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Lead on O King Eternal at Hiraeth
• Teach Me, O Lord, Thy Way of Truth at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 42, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Grace and Truth Shall Mark the Way at joythruChrist 
• Years Are Coming, Speed Them Onward at Conjubilant with Song
• A Sovereign Protector I Have at Whatever Things…
• The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns at The Happy Wonderer
• Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee at Practicing Theology
• God Reveals His Presence at Nova Scotia Scott
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Comments

[Dorothy]

One of my absolute favorite hymns, Rebecca! And there is the Gospel again too.