Blessed Assurance
Fanny Crosby · 1873 · tune ASSURANCE
Key of D · public domain
Words
O what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation, purchase of God
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love
I in my Savior am happy and blest
Watching and waiting, looking above
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love
The story
Fanny Crosby was blinded by a doctor's mistake at six weeks old and wrote around eight thousand hymn texts across ninety-four years. She worked fast: her friend Phoebe Knapp played her a new tune in 1873 and asked what it said, and Crosby answered blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, more or less on the spot. She refused to let publishers use her name too often, so she wrote under nearly two hundred pseudonyms to disguise how much of the hymnal was hers. Asked once whether she wished she could see, she said that if she had a choice she would still choose blindness, because the first face she saw would be her Saviour's.
Chords in D
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Themes
Assurance · Testimony · Joy