Physician of My Sin Sick Soul

from Amazing Grace etc. by Grace Hill & John Newton

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Like several of Newton’s laments, Physician gives us language to see, admit, and confess our sin. Our symptoms and problems with sin are far greater than we know and, thus, how we know how to communicate. Phrases like “raging malady,” “not a single part,” “burning fever,” and “palsy in my head” perhaps shock us, but they are doorways to realizing the true, grave problem of our indwelling sin. I need this; the church needs this today.
Although not as fully developed in this hymn, Newton does give us great hope because Jesus is “the Physician” for “my sin-sick soul.” That phrase alone can pay dividends in contemplation. It is Christ’s unique person and work that lets us end the hymn with cries that we long for his change in us.

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Physician of my sin sick soul
To thee I bring my case;
My raging malady control.
and heal me by thy grace.

Pity the anguish I endure,
See how I mourn and pine;
For never can I hope a cure
From any hand but thine.

I would disclose my whole complaint,
But where shall I begin?
No words of mine can fully pain
That worst distemper, sin.

It lies not in a single part,
But through my frame is spread;
A burning fever in my heart,
A palsy in my head.

It makes me deaf, and dumb, and blind,
And impotent and lame;
And over clouds, and fills my mind,
With folly, fear, and shame.

A thousand evil thoughts intrude
Tumultuous in my breast;
Which indispose me for my food,
And rob my feet of rest.

Lord I am sick, regard my cry,
And set my spirit free;
Say, canst thou let a sinner die,
Who longs to live to thee?

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from Amazing Grace etc., released January 9, 2016
Commentary by Pastor Ross Durham

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