This Is My Story, Song: Reflections on Blessed Assurance

A friend played a melody on the piano and asked, "What does this tune say to you?"The blind woman answered without hesitation: "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!" Within minutes, Fanny Crosby had dictated three stanzas and a refrain that the church has never stopped singing. She called it her favorite of the more than eight thousand hymn texts she wrote. She received almost nothing for it financially. She could not have cared less.This Is My Story, This Is My Song is the tenth volume in the Songs of the Redeemed series. Moving phrase by phrase through Crosby's beloved hymn, Elias Hartwell opens each line into the deep country of Scripture, theology, and the interior life of faith. Here is the assurance that rests not on feeling but on purchase - the purchase of God, paid in blood that still cleanses. Here is the foretaste of glory that the Spirit gives now, in advance of the full arrival. Here is the submission that becomes delight, the rest that is complete, the goodness that fills and the love in which the soul is finally, gratefully lost.For the doubting soul who needs assurance grounded in something firmer than feeling. For the weary believer who has sung this hymn since childhood but never pressed into what it actually claims. For everyone who senses that the refrain is trying to say something more than a chorus -This is your story too.

Pagina's: 85, Paperback, Independently published