V is for Victory

While thinking about what I was going to write about for the letter v for my blogging through the alphabet post, the song Victory in Jesus kept coming up. It’s an older song that I learned in church growing up.

I especially love the chorus:

“O victory in Jesus,
My Savior, forever.
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood;
He loved me ere I knew Him,
And all my love is due Him,
He plunged me to victory,
Beneath the cleansing flood”

I wanted to read more about this great song and who wrote it. I was able to find out that it was written by Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr. and Victory in Jesus was the last song he wrote. He had a stroke that left him unable to travel and sing. He wrote this song as a testimony and died about two years after his stroke.

Even though he was partially paralyzed and couldn’t talk or sing much, he still had a love for Jesus and knew that Jesus would give him victory in the end. We can all learn so much form this great song and the man who wrote the song. When we are at our lowest, we need to remember to keep looking to the one who gave us life. He loves us and will give us victory over anything that we encounter in this life.



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