Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine

1. 1. "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
      Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
      Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
      Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
      • Refrain:
        This is my story, this is my song,
        Praising my Savior all the day long;
        This is my story, this is my song,
        Praising my Savior all the day long.
   2. Perfect submission, perfect delight,
      Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
      Angels, descending, bring from above
      Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
   3. Perfect submission, all is at rest,
      I in my Savior am happy and blest,
      Watching and waiting, looking above,
      Filled with His goodness, lost in His love."
   4. I have to say this is one of my favorite hymns and it is actually where I got the title of my blog from. There's a home video of my brother and I singing it when we were little kids, with the hearth as our stage and our parents as the audience. We didn't know all the words so we repeatedly sang "this is my story, this is my song" over and over. You know -the typical cute home video. 
   5. But now this song means more after I learned that it was one of my Mamaw's favorites when they played it at her funeral last week. I knew there were more words to the song like "praising my savior all the day long," but I learned the rest of the lyrics then.  It makes me think how sometimes we can forget that he is truly ours. It is especially great to know that she knew He is hers and that she is with Him even though we miss her here! I will always think of her now with this song and all the memories growing up visiting my grandparents' old house-baking christmas cookies, doing puzzles, the smell of our clothes after visiting, the 5 dollars she would sneakily give us whenever we saw her, all the wonderful love of a grandparent even as they get too old and move to a new house. Love you always Mamaw!