Below are the songs I heard May 15, 2010 in the Central Bible Study Hour for this

week about
“Rest”. I misheard the title of the first one and thought it was a commitment hymn for true
Christians. The second one is one of my favorites. I used its title for part of my handwritten
letters (before PC computers) above my signature during the recovery time after a failed
marriage. But hearing these two famous songs being sung helped me have a wonderful Sabbath
day after being forced to move last Sabbath afternoon. And even during my morning walk, God
gave me another wonderful hymn, but no words for me to look up the lyrics via the Internet.
Divine peace comes in many different forms and all we have to do is be right with Abba Father
and want divine peace from Him. Romans 14:17 indicates that is part of the Kingdom of God.
and Ephesians 5 says music should follow being filled with the Holy Spirit.

I Gave My Life For Thee

This was Frances Havergal’s first hymn. She wrote it after seeing Sternberg’s painting Ecce
Homo in Düsseldorf, Germany. A caption on the painting read, “This have I done for thee; what
has thou done for Me?” Here is what Miss V. G. Havergal wrote about this hymn:
In F. R. H’s MS. copy, she gives this title, “I did this for thee; what hast thou done for Me?”
Motto placed under a picture of our Saviour in the study of a German divine. On January 10,
1858, she had come in weary, and sitting down she read the motto, and the lines of her hymn
flashed upon her. She wrote them in pencil on a scrap of paper. Reading them over she thought
them so poor that she tossed them on the fire, but they fell out untouched. Showing them some
months later to her father, he encouraged her to preserve them, and wrote the tune Baca specially
for them. The hymn was printed on a leaflet, 1859, and in Good Words, February, 1860.
Published also in The Ministry of Song, 1869. Though F. R. H. consented to the alterations in
Church Hymns, she thought the original more strictly carried out the idea of the motto, “I gave
My life for thee, What hast thou done for Me?”

Frances Haveral herself said about this hymn:

I was so overwhelmed on Sunday at hearing three of my hymns touchingly sung in Perry
Church, that I never before realized the high privilege of writing for the “great congregation,”
especially when they sang, “I gave My life for thee” to my father’s tune Baca.

I gave My life for thee, My precious blood I shed,

That thou might ransomed be, and raised up from the dead
I gave, I gave My life for thee, what hast thou given for Me?
I gave, I gave My life for thee, what hast thou given for Me?
My Father’s house of light, My glory circled throne
I left for earthly night, for wanderings sad and lone;
I left, I left it all for thee, hast thou left aught for Me?
I left, I left it all for thee, hast thou left aught for Me?
I suffered much for thee, more than thy tongue can tell,
Of bitterest agony, to rescue thee from hell.
I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee, what hast thou borne for Me?
I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee, what hast thou borne for Me?
And I have brought to thee, down from My home above,
Salvation full and free, My pardon and My love;
I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee, what hast thou brought to Me?
I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee, what hast thou brought to Me?

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Scriptural Reference:
”You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love,
endurance, persecutions, sufferings-- what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium
and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact,
everyone who wants to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. . .”
2 Timothy 3:10-12

Because He Lives
by Bill Gaither

God Sent His Son, They Called Him Jesus;

He Came To Love, Heal And Forgive.
He Lived And Died To Buy My Pardon;
An Empty Grave Is There To Prove My Savior Lives.

Chorus:
Because He Lives
I Can Face Tomorrow
Because He Lives
All Fear Is Gone
Because I Know He Holds The Future
And Life Is Worth The Living
Just Because He Lives

How Sweet To Hold A Newborn Baby,

And Feel The Pride And Joy He Gives;
But Greater Still The Calm Assurance:
This Child Can Face Uncertain Day Because He Lives.

Chorus

And Then One Day I'll Cross The River;

I'll Fight Life's Final War With Pain.
And Then, As Death Gives Way To Vict'ry,
I'll See The Lights Of Glory And I'll Know He Reigns.

Chorus