What Good Friday Is All About

All for Jesus

Following the theme of Holy Week when we remember afresh the sacrifice of our Savior on the cross, I want to post something each day to cause reflection on the awesome price Christ paid to buy us back from destruction.

This is from John Stainer’s oratorio, The Crucifixion, largely forgotten now except for two pieces that are still in use, God So Loved the World and this hymn, All for Jesus. Here are the words followed by the music.

All for Jesus! All for Jesus!
This our song shall ever be,
For we have no hope, nor Saviour,
If we have not hope in Thee!

All for Jesus Thou wilt give us
Strength to serve Thee, hour by hour;
None can move us from Thy presence,
While we trust Thy love and power.

All for Jesus! at thine altar
Thou dost give us sweet content;
There, dear Saviour, we receive thee
In the solemn sacrament.

All for Jesus! Thou hast loved us;
All for Jesus! Thou hast died;
All for Jesus! Thou art with us;
All for Jesus Crucified.

All for Jesus! All for Jesus!
This the Church’s song must be
till, at last, her sons are gathered
one in love and one in Thee!