This
is the final part in a short mini-series on the truths and beauty of some of my favourite hymns.
I have chosen five hymns – four old and one new – that simply speak to me.
There are many others and I am sure your choice may be very different from
mine. Here is my final choice.
This
modern song by Michael W Smith is very much a personal favourite - if only for
the lines “And I fall to my knees So
it's you that they see Not I” This song brings home to me the need for us to
die to self that Jesus may be seen and not us.
Lifting Jesus High
Sin
and its ways grow old
All
of my heart turns to stone
And
I'm left with no strength to arise
How
You need to be lifted high
Sin and its ways lead to pain
Sin and its ways lead to pain
Left
here with hurt and with shame
So
no longer will I leave your side
Jesus,
you be lifted high
You be lifted high
You be lifted high
You
be lifted high
You
be lifted high in my life Oh God
And
I fall to my knees
So
it's you that they see Not I
Jesus,
you be lifted high
And even now that I'm inside your hands
And even now that I'm inside your hands
Help
me not to grow prideful again
Don't
let me forsake sacrifice
Jesus
you be lifted high
And if I'm blessed with the riches of kings
And if I'm blessed with the riches of kings
How
could I ever think that it was me
For
you brought me from darkness to light
Jesus,
you be lifted high
You be lifted high
You be lifted high
You
be lifted high
You
be lifted high in my life Oh God
And
I fall to my knees
So
it's you that they see Not I
Jesus,
you'll be lifted high
That’s my selection of favourites complete – at
least for now. There is so much fundamental Biblical truth in these hymns or
songs, whatever you want to call them. Jesus speaks to us through each and
every one of them.
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