11Mar 07
Just As I Am
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This past week in Wisdom booklet, we were studying the song ’Just As I Am’ written by Charlotte Eliot.
Before Charlotte became a Christain she had a bitter heart towards the Lord. One day someone came to her and asked why she was so bitter twoards the Lord. She
then realized her bitter spirit and said she needed salvation. So Charlotte said I give my life to the Lord ‘Just as I Am.’ Throughout her life time she wrote 150 hymns. One of her famous hymns is ‘Just As I Am.’
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Praise the Lord that He took each one of us ‘just as we are.’ And none can pluck us out of His hand. To whom much is given, much is required. Thank you Kenan. I really appreciate your post.
What an inspiring post, Kenan! I was motivated to look up more about Charlotte Elliot on cyberhymnal.org and found out that she became an invalid around age 30 and remained so the rest of her life. But listen to what she wrote:
“My Heavenly Father knows, and He alone, what it is, day after day, and hour after hour, to fight against bodily feelings of almost overpowering weakness and languor and exhaustion, to resolve, as He enables me to do, not to yield to the slothfulness, the depression, the irritability, such as a body causes me to long to indulge, but to rise every morning determined on taking this for my motto, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.’”
What a blessing it is to know that Christ takes us just the way we are, what a loving Father we serve! May we have that same kind of love for all those we come in contact with.
I was playing that song just the other day on the piano for sight reading! It is a very beautiful song indeeed. I had always loved the song but never knew the history of it. Well, I do now!
What a simple testimony Mrs. Elliot had. And from it what a simple melody and message! I think that’s one reason that it is sung so often and remembered so well.