From Tim Pyles

There is an old saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!”  Our salvation from sin through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ sounds far too good to be true.  And yet, God’s amazing love has indeed accomplished our redemption through the gift of His Son.  I’ll let Charles Wesley (1707-1788) take it from here with the words of the hymn, And Can It Be?, which he composed in 1738: 

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? 

He left His Father’s throne above
So free, so infinite His grace!,
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race:
’Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For O my God, it found out me!

 No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own. 

Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray—
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.