Alas and Did My Saviour Bleed
A Consecration Hymn
by Isaac Watts

It was the evening of November 20th, 1850 at a revival meeting at the Broadway Tabernacle. Fanny Cosby was there at the revival meeting seeking for a deeper experience with God. She felt herself terribly lacking in her spiritual walk and went to the meeting at least two times before this event took place.

She called this her 'November Experience' and said that "for the first time I realized that I had been trying to hold the world in one hand and the Lord in the other."

How is our walk with the Lord today? Do we like Fanny Crosby need to align ourselves with the Lord's will and be fully consecrated to Him and His service? Do you want have a 'November Experience' too?

I believe that we are all unique and God know us and treat us according to our uniqueness. So it might not be an experience like hers. But if we seek after God, He promised to be there for us.

May this consecration hymn by Isaac Watts brings us to a closer walk with our Lord and God. For indeed, 'Christ, the mighty Maker' did died 'for man the creature's sin'.

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Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed

~ Isaac Watts, 1674-1748

Stanza 1:

Alas! and did my Savior bleed?

And did my Sov'reign die?

Would He devote that sacred head

For such a worm as I?

Stanza 2:

Was it for crimes that I have done,

He groaned upon the tree?

Amazing pity! Grace unknown!

And love beyond degree!

Stanza 3:

Well might the sun in darkness hide

And shut its glories in,

When Christ, the mighty Maker, died

For man the creature's sin.

Stanza 4:

Thus might I hide my blushing face

While His dear cross appears;

Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,

And melt mine eyes to tears.

Stanza 5:

But drops of grief can ne'er repay

The debt of love I owe;

Here, Lord, I give myself away -

'Tis all that I can do.

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