Unless a movie is showing on American Airlines or in my hotel room, I might not even know it is in existence.\u00a0 Needless to say I am not a motion picture fan \u2013 unless of course, the film is about baseball, football or golf.\u00a0 So when I saw a review in my local newspaper of a movie entitled, \u201cRedeeming Love\u201d I was intrigued. I grew up Southern Baptist (actually I\u2019m still growing up and still Southern Baptist) singing out of various editions of the Broadman\/Baptist Hymnal, wherein exist a favorite hymn written in 1772 by William Cowper, considered by many the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century. \u00a0The hymn is entitled, \u201cThere is a Fountain Filled with Blood.\u201d\u00a0 The fourth verse of that hymn begins with \u201cE\u2019er since by faith I saw the stream\u00a0Thy flowing wounds supply,\u00a0Redeeming love has been my theme,\u00a0and shall be till I die.\u201d\u00a0 Redeeming love is that kind of love that brings about salvation or redemption from sin. Cowper actually wrote his hymns in the midst of acute depression and severe personal anguish, in fact there was hardly a day in his sixty-nine years that he did not suffer, yet this hymn reflects his complete dependence on the atoning work of Christ on Calvary. This hymn was based on Zechariah 13:1,\u00a0\u201cIn that\u00a0day\u00a0a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for\u00a0uncleanness.\u201d\u00a0I read the movie review and concluded the PG-13 rated film had nothing to do with the hymn of my youth.\u00a0 The next time you feel depressed or find yourself in anguish, don\u2019t watch the movie, sing the hymn.<\/p>\n
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