How often have I reflected on such words as these as recounted in this hymn: “Would He devote that sacred head for sinners such as I?”

Truly, never can I ever understand the extents of what the Bible meant when it says:

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

—Romans 5:6-8

Let us reflect in this blessed Gospel truth, that to us wretched, hell-deserving sinners what is instead given is “Amazing pity, grace unknown, and love beyond degree!”

A blessed Lord’s Day to all.

Alas and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sov’reign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
for sinners such as I?

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

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut His glories in,
When Christ the mighty Maker died
For man, the creature’s sin.

But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe;
Here, Lord I give myself away,
’Tis all that I can do.

Author: Isaac Watts
Composer: Hugh Wilson
Tune: Martyrdom (Wilson)
Scripture: Luke 23:44-46 Matt 26:28