Blessed Assurance
Not
much is known of the background of this
Fanny Crosby hymn, "Blessed Assurance,
Jesus is Mine." Fanny tells this one
story about the hymn. Mrs. Joseph
Fairchild Knapp, wife of the organizer
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, went to visit her
and get an opinion of a tune Mrs. Knapp
had written. "What does it say to you,
Fanny?" she asked. Fanny's answer was
"Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine." And
then a few minutes later she handed to
Mrs. Knapp the completed lyrics of the
hymn. The tune and the lyrics were put
together and are still sung today.
Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns. She
said about her blindness, "The first
face ever to gladden my sight will be
when I get to heaven and behold the face
of the One who died for me. . . . I
verily believe that God intended that I
should live my days in physical darkness
so that I might be better prepared to
sing His praise and lead others from
spiritual darkness into eternal light.
With sight I would have been too
distracted to have written thousands of
hymns."
Listen To: Blessed Assurance
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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.
refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my
sight;
Angles descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
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.
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