What A Friend We Have In Jesus (Pack Of 25)

What a Friend we have in Jesus,All our sins and griefs to bear!What a privilege to carryEverything to God in prayer.O, what peace we often forfeitO, what needless pain we bear?All because we do not carryEverything to God in prayer. JOSEPH SCRIVEN The man who wrote this nineteenth-century hymn was familiar with grief and loneliness. Scriven was engaged twice, and both times his bride-to-be died before the wedding. He fought depression all his life. It was after one bout with depression that he wrote the words to this song. He could write those words because he had discovered the reality of friendship with Jesus Christ. Jesus understands our feelings because he lived on earth as a man. Jesus knows what it is like to be lonely. He suffered the pain of rejection and cruelty, and he felt hunger and thirst. The Bible describes him as ?a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief? (Isaiah 53:3). Yet Jesus did more than just sympathize with our troubles. The Bible says that ?all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God? (Romans 3:23), and that ?the wages of sin is death? (Romans 6:23). But God transferred our sin to Jesus, his sinless Son, to make us right with God (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead on the third day. He experienced God?s wrath in our place. Because of that, those who