~Instead Of Me

     A little child, between four and five years of age, on retiring, knelt down to say her evening prayer and was heard to say:

     “Dear Jesus, I thank you for being punished instead of me.”

      She had heard her mother talking of Jesus taking our place. This incident inspired the hymn, “Instead of Me.”

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INSTEAD OF ME

Good news from the gospel is sounding today;

I haste to receive it, how can I delay?

It tells me from bondage my soul may be free,

Through Jesus who suffered instead of me.