Alas and Did My Savior Bleed

We sang Alas & Did My Savior Bleed on Sunday. As we were singing I was struck how the first verse and chorus are full of rhetorical questions. They're not just questions, but facts. They're truths that have already happened. This is what was going on in my head as we sang...

Alas and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I

Alas my Savior bled

And my Savior died

He devoted that sacred head

For a filthy worm, for me

Was it for sins that I had done
He groaned upon the tree
Amazing pity, grace unknown
And love beyond degree

Because of the sins I committed

He groaned on that tree

It was amazing pity and grace unknown

It was love beyond degree

My God why would
You shed Your blood
So pure and undefiled
To make a sinful one like me
Your chosen precious child

My God why DID

You shed your blood

So pure and undefiled

To make a sinful one like me

Your chosen, precious child

© 1997 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI). Music and chorus lyrics by Bob Kauflin. Lyrics by Isaac Watts 

 

It was a fresh reminder of what I know, but so quickly forget. My salvation has been accomplished. It's done, paid for. It's a fact. It does not and will not change. What a hope-filled thought!