All Eternity We'll Sing!

While contemplating the faith that is ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, of His divine power, and the divine nature that we have been made partakers of according to His excellent glory, as spoken of through the apostle Peter by the Spirit of God, I came to verse 16 of the first chapter of 2nd Peter, as he says, "we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ".

As I thought of his eyewitness account, my mind returned to the incident in which Jesus said to Thomas, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." And thus the following words came to mind;

Oh see by faith the coming of
The power of His Majesty,
Jesus Christ, the King of kings,
The Lord of all eternity.
For He has granted unto us
The gift of His True nature,
As we in Him, are blessed to be,
As sons, a brand new creature.

All things of life and godliness,
He's given us to grow
That more like Him, on earth we'll be
As more of Him we know.
As we partake of promises
So precious and so great,
We overcome corruption of
The sins that we now hate.

Oh take the time to contemplate
All He holds now in store
For those of us He carried to
The cross, His body bore
Our sins, and all that does
Offend the holiness of God.
No words can tell the horror then,
When crushed before the rod

Of all the law, no mortal man
Could ever hope to fill,
As He in all perfection
Yielded to the Father's will.
What excellence and glory
Have we through Him received,
Increasing by His righteousness,
As by Him we believed.

So add to faith with virtue,
And with knowledge, self control,
With steadfastness and godliness
Our brothers we behold.
And do for them in love with God,
For all that truly matters
Is that His glory be displayed
And will o'er all that shatters,

Before the voice of Him Who comes
And every eye will see,
Him who comes to make His bride
More beautiful like He.
And though this simple song falls short
Of all of His perfection,
My prayer is that You'll look to Him
Who Is my hearts direction.

For Jesus gave a heart of flesh,
For that which was of stone,
And more than I can now perceive
He made me all His Own.
Now through His Word I dimly see
His face and know in part,
But then I shall know, as He's known
Me fully from the start.

And though we taste of glory now,
We trust in His good pleasure
To fill up all that we now lack,
The fullness of the measure,
The gift of Christ that all will see
The wonder of His glory,
And all eternity we'll sing
The splendor of His story.

Michael E. Wood
April 30, 2010