Studying this morning on Romans 12:2 and came across this wonderful convicting song. Check out the lyrics of the song by Charles A. Tindley written in 1905.
The story goes that Tindley, whose many musical compositions includes hymns such as “We’ll Understand it Better By and By” and “I’ll Overcome Some Day,” was working on a sermon when a gust of wind blew some papers over the sermon he was writing. He reportedly thought to himself “let nothing between” which led to the theme of the hymn.
Like the gust of wind, the cares of this life are constantly attempting to blow things in the way of our connection with Christ and our duty to His service. Before we know it, we are not spending time studying the Word, or we are neglecting to serve others - growing cold can happen so easily - let nothing come between you and the saviour.
Here are the lyrics:
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
Naught of this world’s delusive dream;
I have renounced all sinful pleasure;
Jesus is mine, there’s nothing between.
Refrain:
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen;
Nothing preventing the least of His favor;
Keep the way clear! Let nothing between.
Nothing between, like worldly pleasure;
Habits of life, though harmless they seem,
Must not my heart from Him ever sever;
He is my all, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between, like pride or station;
Self or friends shall not intervene;
Though it may cost me much tribulation,
I am resolved, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between, e’en many hard trials,
Though the whole world against me convene;
Watching with prayer and much self-denial,
I’ll triumph at last, there’s nothing between.
Powerful words! They just don’t write them like they used to. Oh, that nothing would come between us and our Lord. Here is a video of an arrangement of this song combined with “I Surrender All”. May this be our theme today.
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