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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
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Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight; Angels descending, bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
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Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Savior am happy and blest; Watching and waiting, looking above, Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
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Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
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34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. ”
This is a command! He wasn't asking.
Now ask yourself, how does Jesus love us?
Jesus loves us unconditionally, sacrificially, openly, vulnerably, and when it isn’t convenient. He meets us right where we are and loves us just as we are.
To be lost in His love, for me, means, to be totally absorbed in loving each other the same way He loves us!
He's calling us to love one another. Jesus loves His disciples, (us), in such a radical, self-sacrificial manner that He is now calling us to emulate His glorious love in all of our relationships with one another.
Imagine what a wonderful world this would be, IF...?
Thank you 2024
Maria M Thornbrough of
Seminole, FL, United States
Now that explains it. As a deaf person, I might possibly translate “Lost in His love” into ASL (American Sign Language). The translation may be like what you explained. Something like “Focus eyes (on) Jesus’s love”. The “on” will not be used when signing because the whole sentence of “Focus eyes Jesus’s love” IS the full ASL translation for “Lost in His love”. Hope I’m clear on my explanation. Again, thank you for explaining.
To answer Gerrado Conas.."lost in his love" means surrounded so much by his love that there is nothing else that can distract you... a kind of "keep your eyes upon Jesus " moment, when all else fades away. 💞
Frances Jane Crosby was born March 24, 1820, Brewster, Putnam County, New York and died February 12, 1915, Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut. On her tombstone are the words, “Aunt Fanny“ and “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine. ” “Blessed Assurance, ” one of her best known songs, appeared in at least 937 hymnals.
One of the the most prolific hymnodists in history, Fanny was the wife of organist Alexander Van Alstyne. He was known as one of the finest organists in New York. Like Fanny, he too was blind and taught at the New York Institute for the blind.
Though blinded by an incompetent doctor at six weeks of age, she wrote over 8000 hymns. About her blindness, Fanny said:
“It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me. ”
In her lifetime, Fanny Crosby was one of the best known women in the United States. To this day the vast majority of American hymnals contain her work. On her 85th birthday. American president Grover Cleveland wrote to Fanny:
“My dear friend:
It is more than fifty years ago that our acquaintance and friendship and began; and ever since that time I have watched your continuous and interested labor in uplifting humanity, and pointing out the way to an appreciation of God’s goodness and mercy.
Though your labors have, I know, brought you abundant rewards in your consciousness of good accomplished, those who have known of your works and sympathize with your noble purposes owe it to themselves that you are apprized of their remembrance of these things. I am, therefore, exceedingly gratified to learn that your eighty-fifth birthday is to be celebrated with the demonstration of this remembrance. As one proud to call you an old friend, I desire to be early and congratulating you on your long life of usefulness, and wishing you in the years yet to be added to you, the peace and comfort born of the love of God.
Yours very sincerely,
Grover Cleveland”
Some of her publications include:
• The Bind Girl and Other
Poems, 1844
• Monterey and Other Poems, 1851
• A Wreath of Colombia’s Flowers 1858
• Bells at Evening and Other Verses, 1897
We should not think that if we speak spiritual matters to a new one who was saved only yesterday, he will not understand. Once a person is saved, we need to visit him the following day in order to have a home meeting in his home. Even if the new believer does not understand anything, we still need to find a spiritual lifeline to feed him. For instance, the first item in Christian meetings is hymn singing. Thus, when we visit a new believer, we can bring a recording of a song and play it so that the new one can listen. Whenever we sing hymns, people's hearts open up. Suppose we sing "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; / Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!" (Hymns, #308) or "What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought/ Since Jesus came into my heart! / I have light in my soul for which long I had sought,/ Since Jesus came into my heart!" (Hymns, #309). When we lead a new believer to sing, his mouth will open, and his open mouth will cause his heart and spirit also to open. After singing a hymn, we can select several lines from the hymn to pray over, and then we can continue to sing. By singing and praying, the new believer's spirit will come alive.
The well-known chorus of a gospel song says, "This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long." If we speak the fact that we are in the spirit, our story and song will be that we are in spirit. All day long we may praise the Savior that, because the Spirit of God dwells in us, we are now in the spirit. This will be a very effective inoculation against all the "bugs" sent by the enemy to trouble us in the Christian life.
Formerly we were busy planning. Now we are serenely trusting. Formerly there were constant sorrow and frustration. Now we are like a weaned child, who rests in his mother's bosom. Formerly we were filled with our own thoughts and had many cravings and ambitions. Now we consider God's will as the best and rest in Him. Indeed, "Perfect submission, perfect delight," and "Perfect submission, all is at rest" [Hymns, #308]. Ephesians 6:6 says more or less the same thing: "As slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul." No longer do we do God's will by the soul, which is self-assurance. Now we are doing God's will from the soul, which means carrying out His will practically and wholeheartedly. The soul-life which once rebelled against God's will is now brought into full submission to His will through the work of the cross and is willing to do His will wholeheartedly. Formerly everything was outward; we either walked according to our self-will, or we tried to do God's will according to our self-will. But now, in everything, we have become one mind with God.
We also need to live a rejoicing life, a happy life. We all have to be "hallelujah people," who rejoice in the Lord always (Phil. 4:4). Sometimes the most restful thing is to sing a hymn. Singing a hymn fills us with joy and helps us to enjoy Christ as our rest. The chorus of Hymns, #308 says: "This is my story, this is my song,/Praising my Savior all the day long." A rejoicing life is a life of enjoying God in Christ as everything; this enjoyment makes us happy and causes us to exult all the day. The Christian life should be a rejoicing life.
Now we need to consider the way to have a group meeting. Ephesians 5:18 tells us to be filled in spirit. We believers who love the Lord Jesus, who are seeking His purpose, and who are burdened for His recovery should be persons filled in our spirit all day long. We should be filled with the Triune God, who is today the all-inclusive Spirit to us. When we are filled within, surely we will utter something out from our spirit. Ephesians 5 tells us to be filled, speaking and singing. Our speaking and singing are not in common language. We may speak or sing a psalm, which is a long piece of poetry. It may be like Psalm 119, which has one hundred seventy-six verses. There are twenty-two sections with eight verses in each section. Twenty-two is the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Each section of Psalm 119 is according to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. We may speak or sing a hymn, which is somewhat shorter than a psalm, or we may speak or sing a spiritual song, which is shorter still.We need to speak and sing these psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs long before coming to the meeting. Even in our home, it is very good to be speaking and singing. The husband may say, "This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior...." Then the wife may respond with, "All the day long" (see Hymns, #308). Or she may say, "I have passed the riven veil. Here the glories never fail." Then the husband responds with, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I am living in the presence of the King" (see Hymns, #551). If we are filled in spirit, we will have something to utter. The small group meeting may begin at 7:30 p.m., but if a couple begins to sing at dinnertime, around 6:00 p.m., the small group meeting will have already begun. Such a meeting can continue as they drive together to the meeting with the other saints.
As we read the Word of God, we should not only pray, but also sing to the Lord. This is to read the Word by psalming. (In ancient times the Psalms were sung and not merely read or spoken.) Praying requires more exercise of the spirit than speaking, and singing requires even more exercise than praying. By singing we can truly get into our spirit. We need more singing both in the meetings and in our daily life.The chorus of the well-known hymn 'Blessed Assurance' says: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.Many Christians have sung this hymn, but not many praise their Savior all the day long. What do you think would happen if we praised the Lord all day long? No doubt, we would be utterly immersed in the Lord.
We all need to say happily, triumphantly, and rejoicingly—"Jesus is mine!" We all know the familiar hymn that says, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!" The chorus of this hymn says, "This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long" (Hymns, #308). We are not praising the Lord all the day long for a good house, for an expensive car, or for a heavenly mansion with golden streets and pearly gates. We are praising the Lord all the day long for the fact that Jesus is ours. We are those who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, who is both theirs and ours. To fully understand 1 Corinthians 1:2, you need John 1:1, 14, and 17, John 3:16 and 34, and John 15:26. Also, 1 Corinthians 1:9 tells us that we have been called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. The Greek word for fellowship means joint participation, common participation. God has called us into the participation in His Son. We could even say that God has called us into the enjoyment of His Son.