Hymn & History
Hosea 12:6
“Just As I Am”
By Charlotte Elliot, 1688
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Hymn Lyrics
THE LYRICS ~ “Just As I Am”
Just as I am, without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me,
and that thou bidd’st me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, and waiting not
to rid my soul of one dark blot,
to thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, though tossed about
with many a conflict, many a doubt,
fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, thou wilt receive,
wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
The Author of the Hymn
THE AUTHOR ~ Charlotte Elliot
Born March 18, 1789 in Westfield Lodge, Brighton
Died September 22, 1871 in Norfolk Terrace, Brighton
She was an English poet, hymn writer, and editor. Elliott edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book (1834–59) and The Invalid’s Hymn book, 6th edition, 1854. To this latter collection, she contributed 112 hymns including “Just As I Am, Without One Plea”, which was translated into almost every living language of the day. In spite of being raised in a Christian home, she reflected on her conflicts and doubts and was unsure of her relationship with Christ. An invalid for many years, her life was filled with deeds of beneficence. She shrank from everything ostentation, nearly all her books having been issued anonymously.
History of Hymn
THE HISTORY ~ “Just As I Am”
Charlotte’s brother, the Rev. H. V. Elliott planned to hold a charity bazaar designed to give, at a nominal cost, a high education to the daughters of clergymen supported by St Mary Church.
The night before the bazaar, she was kept wakeful by distressing thoughts of her apparent uselessness; and these thoughts passed by a transition easy to imagine into a spiritual conflict, till she questioned the reality of her whole spiritual life, and wondered whether it were anything better after all, than an illusion of the emotions, an illusion ready to be sorrowfully dispelled.
The next day, the busy day of the bazaar, she lay upon her sofa in that most pleasant boudoir set apart for her in Westfield Lodge, ever a dear resort to her friends.” The troubles of the night came back upon her with such force that she felt they must be met and conquered in the grace of God. She gathered up in her soul, the great certainties, not of her emotions, but of her salvation: her Lord, His power, His promise.
And taking pen and paper from the table she deliberately set down in writing, for her own comfort, “the formulae of her faith.” Hers was a heart which always tended to express its depths in verse. So in verse, she restated to herself the Gospel of pardon, peace, and heaven. “Probably without difficulty or long pause” she wrote the hymn, getting comfort by thus definitely “recollecting” the eternity of the Rock beneath her feet. There, then, always, not only for some past moment, but ” even now ” she was accepted in the Beloved “Just as I am”.
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