Reconciled, I'm reconciled

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Isaiah 61:10
  • Romans 5:1
  • Romans 5:10-11
  • Romans 5:9
  • Romans 8:15-16
  • Romans 8:33-34
  • 1 Corinthians 15:25
  • 2 Corinthians 5:19-20
  • Ephesians 1:20-21
  • Revelation 19:8
Book Number:
  • 787

Reconciled, i’m reconciled,
I’m reconciled to God for ever;
know he took away my sin,
I know his love will leave me never.
Reconciled, I am his child,
I know it was on me he smiled;
I’m reconciled, I’m reconciled to God.
Hallelujah!

2. I’m justified, I’m justified,
it’s just as if I’d never sinned,
and once I knew such guilty fear,
but now I know his peace within me.
Justified, I’m justified,
it’s all because my Jesus died;
I’m justified, I’m justified by God.
Hallelujah!

3. I’ll magnify, I’ll magnify,
I’ll magnify his name for ever;
wear the robe of righteousness
and bless the name of Jesus, Saviour;
magnify the One who died,
the One who reigns for me on high;
I’ll magnify, I’ll magnify my God.

© 1984 Kingsway's Thankyou Music
Mike Kerry

The Christian Life - Assurance and Hope

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Tune

The story behind the hymn

This lively composition by Mike Kerry completes a trio of songs with similar theme, style and origins. This one, however, entered MP in 1987 with the rubric ‘With excitement’, having been written 3 years earlier. Again the tune follows the words of its opening. RECONCILED, I’M RECONCILED. As with 785, it is the song by which (so far) its author/composer is best known. This too made its debut at Spring Harvest; none of these 3 songs, however, appears in the 21st-c SH compilations.

A look at the author

Kerry, Michael (Mike)

b Szechwan, W China, of CIM parents. After education to A-level with a maths/science bias, he worked for 45 years as a computer programmer and consultant; he is now semi-retired and looks after private clients’ home PCs. He began composing in 1975 after a move to Sussex and a church led by Terry Virgo ‘brought me into a personal experience of the Holy Spirit’. He now belongs to Seaford Baptist Ch, E Sussex, where he sings and plays harmonica as a member of the worship group, and is also the Sound Co-ordinator. He enjoys other forms of sound recording, especially birdsong and nature in general, and is a major contributor to and moderator of the ‘Freesound’ project run by the Univ of Barcelona. Several of his songs (words and music) were published for the Downs Bible Weeks and appeared subsequently in the Songs of Fellowship, Spring Harvest series and MP (1970s-80s). His most popular composition from that period is included here. The death of a child led to ‘a long period of creative inactivity’ (MK), but he resumed writing around 1999. This has been mainly for local and inter-church ‘Harp and Bowl’ use, the latter representing ‘a union of prayer and worship‘. His most frequently-explored themes arise from the Song of Songs, such as I heard the voice of my Beloved and What this fragrance. No.787.