Jesus, I know that Thy blood can save,
For I know that it has saved me;
I once feared death, and the cold dark grave,
And the darker eternity.
I felt my sins were a fearful load;
No language my sorrow could tell;
And O, as I walked the broad, broad road,
I knew ‘twas a journey to hell.
But I heard of One who loved me so,
That He came from His throne on high,
To bear the weight of my sin and woe,
And to bleed on the cross, and die.
He washed my sins in the crimson flood
That flowed from His opened side,
And I knew I was saved by the precious blood
Of the Lord who was crucified.
So now, a sinner, redeemed by blood,
In Christ accepted I stand,
And wait, as a blood-bought child of God,
For my home in the heavenly land.
And this is the joy I seek below,
As I sing of His love so free,
That others the wondrous love may know
Of the One who has so loved me.
ML-02/03/1935