Today’s modern hymn focus will be

Jesus Paid it All

Isaiah 1:18 (NASB95)                  

“Come now, let’s settle this,”  says the Lord.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

 I will make them as white as snow.

Though they are red like crimson,

I will make them as white as wool.”

This hymn, written in 1865, came to Elvina M Hall while she was sitting in the choir loft of Monument Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore. The story is told that one Sunday morning, with an extremely long pastoral prayer and a continuous sermon, Elvina’s thoughts began to wander. She wrote down this poem in the blank flyleaf of her hymnal. She later showed them to the pastor,

who, unbeknownst to her, has been met with the church organist John Grape earlier in the week who had given him a musical score that had no words, but  thought he might be able to use in the future. When Reverend Schrick placed two together, they fit like a hand in a glove.

Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe,

sin had left a crimson stain,

He washed it white as snow.

We need to wake up and realize that this song reminds us that there is nothing we can do to earn our salvation. Jesus gave His all in order for us to have it all…  Life, Love, Hope, Joy, Peace, and have it to the fullest.

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Jesus Paid It All