THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

 

Thursday, January 2, 2025

 

THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

 

John 19:33

34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

 

Matt 27:54

54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

 

          There is a fountain filled with blood. William Cowper (1731-1800). This hymn was first published in Richard Conyers’s Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1772).

 

          I find it interesting that the date this hymn was published was 1772. Interesting, because this was one of the hymns of our nation’s founding fathers. I imagine Washington and Jefferson standing in austere surroundings singing these words, perhaps with tears, and remembering the spear thrust into their Saviour’s side. Forthwith there came out blood and water. Forthwith there also came out a new nation, conceived in liberty. Political liberty was founded upon religious liberty and can continue only so long as religious liberty survives.

 

There is a fountain filled with blood,

Drawn from Immanuel’s veins,

And sinners plunged beneath that flood

Lose all their guilty stains:

Lose all their guilty stains,

Lose all their guilty stains;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood

Lose all their guilty stains.

 

The dying thief rejoiced to see

That fountain in His day;

And there have I, though vile as he,

Washed all my sins away:

Washed all my sins away,

Washed all my sins away;

And there have I, though vile as he,

Washed all my sins away.

 

Suffering Saviour, let our conclusion be the same as the centurion. Truly, you are the Son of God. AMEN