Hymn:  My Jesus I Love Thee

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20
Mar '21

Hymn:  My Jesus I Love Thee

Posted on Mar 20, 2021 by Ken Durham in Devotions, General |

20
Mar '21
Seize the Moment – Day 368

Today’s Hymn Focus:  My Jesus I Love Thee

 

“ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”

 

Today’s hymn was not written by a mature Christian who was reflecting on their life, but rather by a 16 year old teenager named William Randolph Featherstone. While history is unclear on his life growing up, his conversion must have been a life-changing event that would impact millions in many lands. It is believed he sent the poem to a family member in Los Angeles, who then shared it with a family member in London, where it was published in a hymnal in 1864.

 

Years later in Boston, Pastor A.J. Gordon came across the song when compiling a hymnal for his Baptist congregation, but he changed the musical setting.

 

A young actress was saved at his church and was moved by the message of the song, so much so, that she told her director that she could not continue to work in show business. He convinced her to at least finish out the run of the show, and she reluctantly agreed. On the night of the final performance, immediately following the play, she stepped forward and sang these words as the applause faded:

 

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

 

And she left the stage never to return.

 

We need to wake up and have the same determination that no matter what, we will always proclaim our love for Jesus and live our lives to reflect that love!

 
 
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1
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.
 
2
I love thee because thou hast 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.
 
3
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 deathdew lies cold on my brow:
If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.
 
4
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.
 
 

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