Seize the Moment – Day 438
Today’s hymn focus will be “Blessed Assurance”
persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day”
In 1873, Fanny Crosby was staying with her friend, Phoebe Knapp. Phoebe owned a palatial mansion in Brooklyn, NY, where she had one of the finest collections of musical instruments in the country.
Phoebe invited her into the music room to play a tune that she had just written. As she sat at the piano and played the new composition, the blind hymnist listened. When she finished, Fanny clapped her hands and exclaimed, “Why, that song says ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine!’”. She quickly wrote the words down and this great hymn was born.
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!
We need to wake up and realize that if we have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are to live in the absolute conviction and triumphant faith that Paul wrote to Timothy about. AND we need to proclaim that story and praise Him all day long.
YOUTUBE:
Blessed Assurance
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.
visions of rapture now burst on my sight.
Angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
I in my Savior am happy and bless’d,
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love.