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 ScrivenThe man who wrote this famous nineteenth-century hymn was familiar with grief and loneliness. Scriven was engaged twice, and both times the bride-to-be died before the marriage date. He fought depression all his life. It was after one bout with depression that he wrote the words to this song. What Scriven had discovered was the reality of friendship with Jesus Christ. He knew that because Jesus lived upon earth as a man, He understands our feelings. Jesus knows what it is like to be lonely. He suffered the pain of rejection and cruelty, and 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 come short of the glory of God,' and that 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 3:23; 6:23). But 'He (God) hath made Him (Christ), who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him' (2 Corinthians 5:21).Jesus Christ, God the Son, died on the cross for our sins, and rose from the dead on the third day.