'Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee

In honor of my one hundredth blog post, I thought I'd share a hymn I have recently happened upon and fallen in love with! What truths are so beautifully stated in this hymn! The Scriptures that correlate to the lyrics I found on The Hymnary.

'Tis Not That I Did Choose Thee

My Lord, I did not choose You,

For that could never be;

My heart would still refuse You,

Had You not chosen me.

You took the sin that stained me,

You cleansed me, made me new;

Of old You have ordained me,

That I should live in You.

Unless Your grace had called me

And taught my opening mind,

The world would have enthralled me,

To heavenly glories blind.

My heart knows none above You;

For Your rich grace I thirst;

I know that if I love You,

You must have loved me first.

-Josiah Conder, 1836

John 15:16 "You did not choose me, but I chose you..."

Romans 3:10-11 "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God."

Romans 5:10 "For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life."

2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

Romans 8:29 "For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son..."

2 Timothy 1:9 "...who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began..."

I Corinthians 2:14 "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

1 John 4:9 "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him."