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.
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