A Church Member Told Me
A church member told me that she’s been singing the hymn “Christ For the World We Sing” for years but only this time noticed a phrase in it.
“Sin-sick,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “Sin-sick. That’s it. That’s it exactly: sin-sick.”
That’s haunted me.
Sick from sin, or sick of sin, or sick with sin?
I think I’ve been all three. Maybe you have, too.
“Sin-sick and sorrow-worn” is how the rest of that phrase goes in that song, and rightly so.
That used to be called “being under conviction.”
Been there, too. You?
Here’s how that ends: “Sin-sick and sorrow-worn, whom Christ doth heal.”
Yessssss! And amen.
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