In reading about the hymn, "How Can it Be that I Should Gain an Interest inthe Savior's Blood," one person commented, "Not many hymns start with a question."   Charles Wesley wrote this hymn in 1738, several days after his conversion.

Amazing love!  How can it be 

that thou my God, shouldst die for me?

I found six verses to this hymn, all filled with his new understanding of the gospel:

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.

"Tis mystery all! th' Immortal dies!  Who can explore His strange design?

In vain the firstborn seraph tries to sound the depths of love divine.

"Tis mercy all! let earth adore;  Let angel minds inquire no more.

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.

Still the small inward voice I hear, that whispers all my sins forgiven.

Still the atoning blood is near, that quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven.

I feel the life His wounds impart, I feel the Savior in my heart.

No condemnation now I dread;  Jesus, and all in Him is mine:

Alive in Him, my living Head, and clothed in righeousness divine,

Bold I approach th' eternal throne, and claim the crown, through Christ my own.