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title: 'To live forever with our Savior: A poem by J.F. Bair for a snowy day'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2020-12-16
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2020-to-live-forever-with-our-savior-a-poem-by-j-f-bair-for-a-snowy-day
---

# To live forever with our Savior: A poem by J.F. Bair for a snowy day

> Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool (Isa. 1:18).

On a snowy day, one cannot help but remember the words of the prophet Isaiah. [John Franklin Bair](/authors/john-franklin-bair) (1867-1951) was also mindful of this verse in a selection from *The Complete Poetical Works of Rev. John Franklin Bair* (1907).

**I Live to Thee My Savior**

> Jesus, I will forever live
> To thee my Savior and my Lord,
> Who doth to ev'ry sinner give
> Comfort and joy through thy blest Word.
> 
> E'en though my sins as scarlet be
> And I by them am plunged in woe,
> Still thy blest Word doth say to me,
> They shall be made white as the snow.
> 
> Thanks be to thee, O God, for this
> Blessed assurance thou dost give,
> That I with thee in joy and bliss,
> In heaven shall forever live.
> 
> To thee, O God, the Father, Son,
> And Holy Spirit, blessed three,
> One God in three and three in one,
> Be glory through eternity.