I want to share a hymn I heard last month while listening to worship music. It isn’t your typical Christmas carol. But it reminds us why Christ came and why we rejoice during this season.

Jesus Paid It All was written by Elvina M. Hall in 1865 and set to the tune of John T. Grape’s All to Christ. During my search, I discovered the third verse wasn’t included in the worship version. Sad. Many videos fail to share that verse. Yet, the third verse reminds us we can do nothing to obtain our salvation. We are helpless without Christ.

We need Bethlehem’s babe more than the breath in our lungs.

Jesus Paid It All conveys the complete work of the cross. I hope you will love it as much as I do.

JESUS PAID IT ALL

I hear the Savior say

“Thy strength indeed is small,

Child of weakness, watch and pray,

Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all,

All to Him I owe;

Sin had left a crimson stain,

He washed it white as snow.

Lord, now indeed I find

Thy pow’r and Thine alone,

Can change the leper’s spots

And melt the heart of stone.

For nothing good have I

Where by Thy grace to claim;

I’ll wash my garments white

In the blood of Calv’rys Lamb.

And when, before the throne,

I stand in Him complete,

“Jesus died my soul to save,”

My lips shall still repeat.

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