Amazing Grace

Sarah Reeves' "Amazing Grace" carries John Newton's 1772 hymn through its most familiar verses, letting the song's own contrasts do the work: "I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." Newton wrote as a former slave-ship captain describing his own transformation, and the hymn has never needed embellishing to carry that weight.

"God, who am I that I deserve a love like this too great" keeps the hymn's central posture intact — not earned, just received, the same logic Paul lays out in Ephesians when he describes salvation as a gift by grace through faith, not a result of anything a person did to deserve it. "No height, no depth, no scheme of man can take me from your grace" leans further into that security, echoing Paul's confidence that nothing in all creation can separate anyone from the love found in Christ.

Reeves closes the song on the simplest possible response: "I wanna say thank you Jesus." After several verses spent describing exactly how much was given without being earned, the song doesn't try to add anything more elaborate than gratitude.