For God Alone

We love to sing our songs of Zion, especially with God’s people. Perhaps the most beloved song-of-the-redeemed is John Newton’s Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound. In fact, many would call this the world’s most famous and, perhaps, favorite hymn. It is translated into many languages across the globe, printed in some 1300 hymnals, and could be sung with gusto by almost any crowd of people throughout the entire United States at any given moment. It is frequently the hymn of choice for Hollywood film directors in funeral service scenes. Christians and non-Christians alike sing Amazing Grace in times of great joy and celebration, and times of deep sorrow and pain. But, always, the words reassure the believer that it is by God’s amazing grace that we are saved, and we are kept. Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved; How prec