Grace Abounding

In September during Sunday worship, our church family has been learning the song “His Forever.” We’re grateful that Sovereign Grace Ministries produces gospel-laden songs for churches to sing such as this one. I love this song because it ties together quotations from Scripture and other rich hymns the church has sung throughout the centuries.

For example, the expression “drew me with His cords of love” is drawn from Hosea 11:4 where God reminds us he leads his people gently with grace. This citation of Hosea fits perfect with our current preaching series where we’re going through Hosea and other books of the Minor Prophets this fall. Then verse three echoes that powerful line from ‘There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood” which says, “Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.”

Read the lyrics below; listen to “His Forever” here (track #5 from the “Worship God Live” album, though we sing it with less instrumentation than heard there). Join us on Sundays in the month of September as we sing this song to Christ’s praise!

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Jesus, friend of sinners, loved me ’ere I knew Him;
Drew me with His cords of love, tightly bound me to Him.
’Round my heart still closely twined, the ties that none can sever;
For I am His and He is mine, forever and forever.

Jesus, friend of sinners, a crown of thorns You wore for me;
Bruised for my transgressions, pierced for my iniquities.
The wrath of God that I deserved was poured out on the Innocent;
He took my place, my soul to save, now I am His forever.

Jesus, friend of sinners, I love to tell the story;
Redeeming love has been my theme, and will be when in glory.
Not death, nor life, nor anything can ever separate me;
O love that will not let me go, Yes, I am His forever.

Verse 1 words by James G. Small (1863); Music and new alternate words by Pat Sczebel (2003) Sovereign Grace Ministries.