I think we can all agree on one thing about Charles Wesley. He knew how to write a hymn with words so powerful that the emotions that rise up in you as you sing can only be attributed to worshipping God. Hymns, to me, are important because they are how I worship my God to thank Him for all He has done for me. This song does not fail to stir my emotions. Read it carefully and listen to it here. It is worthy of your time.
Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears;
The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears:
Before the throne my surety stands,
Before the throne my surety stands,
My name is written on His hands.
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19) We CAN stand before His throne.
He ever lives above, for me to intercede;
His all-redeeming love, His precious blood to plead:
His blood atoned for all our race,
His blood atoned for all our race,
And sprinkles now the throne of grace.
“And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” (Revelation 5:11) Millions have repented of their sins and from all races. We will join with angels one day to worship our Savior.
The Father hears Him pray, His dear anointed One;
He cannot turn away the presence of His Son;
His Spirit answers to the blood,
His Spirit answers to the blood,
And tells me I am born of God.
“To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6
To God I’m reconciled; His pard’ning voice I hear;
He owns me for His child; I can no longer fear:
With confidence I now draw nigh,
With confidence I now draw nigh,
And “Father, Abba, Father,” cry.
“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.” Colossians 1:20-22
