Sunday, July 31, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part 7

Michael E. Wood
July 13, 2011

While the present series does not encompass all of the blessings received to my heart from the Lord during recent days while waiting for what I trust will be full temporary recovery from my back injury, my desire is that He will use the things He has given me to be an encouragement to others and most of all that He will be glorified therein. Thus with prayer and praise we look to Him who was, and Is, and is to come! To Whom be glory both now and forevermore. Amen!

Closing Prayer and Praise!

The glories of Your grace,
Enlightened by the knowledge
That we soon will see Your face;

Oh help us to be bold
And speak the truth in love,
Dependant on Your Holy Spirit’s
Power to unfold

The mystery of the cross
Of which You bore alone,
O Christ, redeeming all You chose
From great eternal loss.

For in Your train we follow now,
As justified, forgiven,
Till all the earth shall know
And every knee before You bow.


After reading the following to my beloved Dianna, she said, "That sounds like a song". I smiled and said, “We’ll see.”

Oh when we fail to notice
As our mem’ry is so weak,
We trust in You that every step
From slipping You will keep.

As all for Your great honor,
Oh help us to be true
And by Your Holy Spirit’s power;
Christ give glory to
Your precious Name, as it alone
Is worthy of all praise
And by the power of Your blood,
We stand, forgiven, raised,
Rejoicing in the privilege;
The called and justified,
As grace through faith You gave to live
Till with You glorified!

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part 6

Michael E. Wood
July 13, 2011

Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.


How oft do we think of afflictions as being those things which we suffer physically in the body or emotionally in our minds?

While having not the slightest intention of belittling those things, and am becoming all the more familiar with bodily afflictions as I grow older, the things that bother me most are those things I find remaining in me revealed by the Holy Spirit through the scriptures and the holiness of God Himself in the person of Christ.

The slowness and deception of my own heart and mind to grasp and to speak the realities of the One true God by the power of His Spirit unto His glory would be disheartening at times to the point of exasperation apart from His free grace. But God in His infinite wisdom gives peace through the blood of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ and causes us to rejoice in every tribulation with hope and assurance that in all things He will be glorified. In steadfast love and faithfulness, He walks with us and He talks with us, reminding us that we are His to do with as He will. And He who has begun a good work in us will continue to do so till the day of Christ. He is our life; we are hidden in Him, and all for the purpose of His infinite glory. Amen!

Heaven We Foretaste

Afflictions of the heart
And afflictions of the mind
Are places all God’s children
Will in Him true comfort find.


For as we drink the cup
In earnest looking up
To Him Who Is our peace
And bids us to Him come and sup


Of resurrection power,
He is each passing hour
And gives the fruit of joy
Which comes from each new budding flower.


And in them we do taste
That nothing is a waste
He uses as in sweet communion
Heaven we foretaste

Friday, July 29, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part Five

Michael E. Wood
July 8, 2011

Often when I am given a new poem, my immediate desire is to share what I have been given with my beloved Dianna as soon as possible. Upon calling her and reading to her the poem from the previous post, I said, “Why is God so good to me?”, and then, “I know the answer to that!” Upon hanging up the phone the following came to mind.

The Smile of God and Not a Frown

Why is God so good to me
Is what I ask in part,
When I know the dark recesses
Of my stubborn heart?


Then in mercy, He doth speak
By Holy Spirit groan,
“In Christ alone, You are mine,
Whose blood did full atone
For every action, every thought
Of sin with great offense.
I Am your One Great Treasure,
And I Am your Recompense!
For My glory, I have raised you
From eternal loss.
For My praise you may forever
Glory in the cross!”


And thus His exaltation
Is forever now my aim.
His steadfast love and faithfulness
Forevermore proclaim.


For He is all my hope
And all my joy,
And all my crown;
For in Him
I receive
The smile of God and not a frown!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part Four

Michael E. Wood
July 8, 2011


Another benefit of being immobilized for a few days was the opportunity to begin to read the book entitled “Revival”, by Martyn Lloyd Jones.

It is quite obvious that in the day we live there are multitudes upon multitudes of people oblivious to the Presence of the Living God.  Oh that He might send revival in our day that Christ would be exalted, and that His Name would be praised to the glory of God the Father! The following are a few excerpts from the aforementioned book which stimulated both the prayer of my heart expressed through poetry.

“The basis of everything is the sovereign, transcendent, living God, who in His eternal, glorious freedom acts, intervenes, and interferes with the life of the whole church and of individuals.”


“And in revival men and women feel as Paul did. They see their own sinfulness; they are horrified and cry out for deliverance.”


“That is what happens in every period of revival and of re-awakening. Men and women quake in the presence of the living, and the holy God.”

The Awareness of Your Presence

The awareness of Your presence
Is that which we beseech,
Not aught of self but all of You,
O Holy Spirit reach
Into the hearts of mortal men
That they may know Your hand,
O Father how You condescend,
Give grace to understand;
The wickedness with which we’re born,
Our hopelessness and loss,
Then fill their eyes with faith to know
The wonders of the cross.


For powerless are we to gain
One soul by what we speak
But You our Mighty Savior
Are the Shepherd that doth seek
The lost of which You purchased
By Your blood and when You cried,
“It Is Finished!” bowed Your head
And on the cross You died.


Buried in a borrowed tomb
And three days later rose;
Our Father’s satisfaction
Was accomplished to expose
Your glory which will never end,
But in it stand amazed
The remnant by the mercies
Of our God Whose Name be praised!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part Three

Michael E. Wood
July 7, 2011

The Temple He Hath Built!

Haggai 2:5-9 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. For thus says the LORD of hosts: “Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.  And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts. The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.

While continuing to be laid up in the bed with back pain, I was given the pleasure of reading through some of the Minor Prophets. What a delight it is to be enabled by His Spirit to see the God-centeredness of God through the scriptures; the proclamations of prophesy concerning the sacrifice of His Son, a glimpse into the glory of the finished temple in heaven built by Himself, and the benefit of peace we have received through the covenant of grace between God the Father and God the Son.

Thus we will boast more gladly of our weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon us, having all confidence that He will build His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Do you stand before God’s people
And in awe you speak
Of Him Who has all power
And from heaven still’s His sheep?


To know that as His voice is heard
With all of heaven shaken,
Those remaining will delight
In Him who was forsaken.
For us it was upon the cross,
Communion with the Father
Was broken momentarily
For every son and daughter,
That in Him God was pleased to give
This Holy benefit
By Jesus Who gave up Himself
For sin so infinite.


And thus with joy we shall delight
In all He brings our way
And glorify for mercy
Till with Him at perfect day.
For God the searcher of all hearts,
Remover of our guilt,
Will glorify Himself that day;
The temple He hath built!

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part Two

Michael E. Wood
July 6, 2011

While being the tenth consecutive day with back pain, one might ask, “Why do you address this as very light afflictions?”

In comparison with things many of our brethren undergo daily throughout the world, mine is indeed a very, very, very light affliction. I heard a missionary quote a believer from another country as saying, “You Americans pray that God will remove the burden from your back. We pray that God will strengthen our backs to bear the burden.”

In Romans 5:1-5 We are instructed, and learn by experience, that not only do we have peace with God judiciously through the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ; but, we also enjoy peace with God as a benefit of our justification while He leads us through the various trials of this life, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God!

Our Great Physician

Oh far beyond our intellect
Our Mighty God, He doth select
Our tribulations whereby we
May know and love His Majesty!

He does not need our earthly things
But takes great pleasure in the wings
Of faith He gives for us to fly
Into His arms of love on high.

In our patience we possess,
Experience whereby we bless
His Name in hope and without shame
All glory will go to His Name!

And thus through time we shall reflect
His knowledge, Who without respect
Of persons but by our position
In Christ alone, our Great Physician!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Blessings From Very Light Afflictions - Part One

Michael E. Wood
July 5, 2011


While pretty much confined to being on my back in bed for four consecutive days, Dianna printed out a number of pages from an eBook we had purchased through http://www.monergism.com/.

The make up of the book is a collection of articles by different authors on the subject of Justification by faith alone through Christ alone, to the glory of God alone. One of the articles is entitled, Free Justification by Octavius Winslow. The following poem was written upon the completion of that article along with other various readings.

Do You Trust Morality

Do you trust morality and living life much better
Than so many others by the law, Yeah even to the letter?
Do you seek as for yourself the good of every neighbor,
And is the goal of heaven what you seek in all your labor?

Do you trust religious forms and closely to them cling?
Perhaps you as a member of a church have joined and sing,
“Amazing grace how sweet the sound”, and yet the truth be known,
You do not trust in Jesus Christ, by grace through faith alone!

Perhaps you live above reproach compared to other men
And yet you’re blinded to the fact, in Adam you have sinned.
So driven by desire to prove that you know what is best
You do not trust in Christ alone and enter in His rest!

Oh when this life is over and much sooner than you think,
God as Judge o’er pride and ignorance will not then wink.
For if you trust in anything of self you’ll be denied
As only through the blood of Christ can you be justified.

And through the cross this was accomplished for all those who look
And live by faith in Christ alone, as God who undertook
The only way by which the Father’s justice vindicated
Could display the glory of Almighty God as stated.

For in His written Word He has declared for His Own sake
To redeem a remnant of all peoples to partake
Of holiness of without which no man could ever see,
God alone through Jesus Christ to Whom all glory be.

Oh Holy Spirit come and speak these truths into effect
In hardened hearts and blinded minds who will no way subject
Themselves unto the One True God, except by grace You give,
The light of glory in the face of Jesus Christ to live!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

All For Good

Michael E. Wood
July 2-4, 2011

On Tuesday, June 28th, 2011, I had begun to have back pains which continued to grow worse to the point of being in tears as I struggled to get out of the bed on Sunday morning. Dianna insisted it was time to go to the Doctor and I had to agree. Thus we headed to the ER at Mercy San Juan Medical Center. Everyone from the intake personnel, to the nurses and doctors were wonderful and to our amazement we were in and out in about two hours. There was no bone damage according to the X-rays, I was given some medication and told if it did not get better to return in a couple of days so they could recommend a physician for further care. The next four days were spent almost entirely in the bed.

Having been born again by the Spirit of God by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross, I have likewise come to understand that the things which happen to us in this life are never by accident but rather are designed by the sovereignty of God for the purpose of the furtherance of the gospel. While having my X-rays done, one of the technicians noticed the inscription on my wedding ring and asked, “What language is that?” I said, “It is Hebrew. Both my wife and I have the same inscription, and it means, ‘I am my Beloved’s and He is mine’”. I would like to have said more but I have learned to despise not the day of small things and trust that God will bring glory to Himself through the infirmity of my flesh and in the weakness of my witness for Him.

Pastor Jeremy Twombley stayed in touch via email and special prayer was offered up to our Lord on Wednesday night by our brothers and sisters at Immanuel Baptist Church. Again to our amazement when I awoke Thursday morning, the pain that I had been feeling had subsided by at least fifty percent and when Sunday came I was well enough to attend all of the services. And what a wonderful day it was! Though I was somewhat uncomfortable sitting with low levels of pain, and at the time of this writing have not completely healed, we are happy to say, “It is good to be in the house of the LORD!”

The first verse of this poem was written the day before going to the hospital, with the remaining being given the day after.

All for good You do for me
That flows forth from Thy charity.
Sweet comforts are found all in Thee,
O Christ, because of Calvary!


We thank You when afflictions come,
We’re made to know that You they’re from,
As mercies flow amidst our ills
And lifts our eyes unto the hills
From whence You come, O God our strength
And stretch us to know more the length,
The breadth, the width, the depth, the height
Of Your great love both day and night.


Because of You we persevere
Rejoicing as You draw us near
To make Your Presence very clear
That others come to know Your fear.


O Holy Spirit come revive
Your church that we may humbly strive
With power from on high by grace
Reveal the light of glory’s face.


For Jesus is our only hope,
Who gave Himself to show the scope
Of glory which transcends the fall
To praise Your Name O Lord of all!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

In Him Your Glory is Shown!

Michael E. Wood
July 1, 2011


James 1:17:   Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

To the natural man with a natural eye fixed upon things of this world and to those who have a view of God in relation to the temporal enjoyments of this life this verse would be viewed in the light of the pleasures this world has to offer and seen as the direct blessing of God upon a life which would seem to be pleasing to Him by virtue of outward forms of religion and obedience thereto. So then, how does one who professes godliness but denies the power thereof handle the adversities of life such as loss of health, wealth, or any other earthly enjoyment which eventually comes upon all men?

The true grace of God gives a person an eye to see that all that our Sovereign Father does and brings into our lives are truly good gifts, yea, perfect gifts in which His goodness is displayed by that which He works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. He does not change, nor is it in Him to change; therefore we are made to delight in Him who through the abundance of mercy shown through the shed blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ hath granted us forgiveness of sins and all things by His Spirit which pertains to life and godliness unto His eternal praise.

Oh now I exclaim, and gladly proclaim
Tis pleasure to sit at Your feet
To listen with awe, and know above all
Your grace is sufficient to meet
Every command by writ of Your hand
You breathed out, as men wrote on paper,
The Gospel, Good News, for those that You choose
Through lives that on earth are but vapor.

Oh Spirit come quicken in hearts You have written
To know we are claimed through the cross,
With sin overcome by the blood of Your Son
Whose glory will never know loss.
In knowing we’re Thine, we humbly resign;
Receive all as good from Your hand;
And count all as joy of which You employ
That others in Jesus will stand
Strong in the test to prove godliness
With contentment is now our great gain.
For in You we find none other so kind
To give us Your joy in our pain.

So light our affliction and sweet the affection
You speak by the sound of Your voice
To guide and to cheer, to draw us so near
And say now again we rejoice
In You who alone, Oh Jesus enthroned
In glory to now intercede
For though we be tried, in You glorified
We’ll be as You meet every need.

Oh in us inflame more love for Your Name
Through the fires of this life that You meet
Out to all those whose faith in them grows
More pure as in You we’re complete.
Oh help us to bloom as the fragrant perfume
Of Your life in us You did impart
So sweetly to sing to You our Great King
Who gave us the love of Your heart!

In our generation our great expectation
Is that You will raise for Your glory
A remnant to shine by Your glory divine
By Your Spirit to exult in Your story.
For our happiness is only in this
That You above all will be known
Through Christ crucified and now glorified
And in Him Your glory is shown!


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

To Us Makes It Plain

Michael E. Wood
June 30, 2011

Having strained my back earlier in the week and finding it difficult to move around without pain, I found myself having to make arrangements for someone to fill in for me in the janitorial duties at church. With having some extra time on my hands I decided to read the Gospel Coalition blog for the day and share its content, via email, with one of the elders from our church.  In his first reply, he asked how I was feeling and in his second reply, he said that I should have some good time for reading and writing.  In between emails, the poem below was composed and I forwarded it along with my reply beginning with, "Thanks Jeremy.  I started to reply to your first email by answering "feeling older" but before I could answer, here's what He gave me between emails."

Older days and still amazed
At just how good God is,
For He confines, to know His mind,
And know that I am His.


For in the pain there is much gain
And glory to behold,
To be still and know His will,
As He to me unfolds


His light amidst earthly conflicts
As darkness flees away
To rejoice in Sovereign choice
That He has brought my way.


For as we shall behold Him well
Amidst obscurity,
We ask for pow'r in the hour
He gives for clarity.


To make Him known, as from the throne
He calls His human sheep.
By His Spirit; His voice they hear it,
And know that He will keep


All who fall and to Him call,
As Christ for us was slain,
As He from glory, reveals His story
And to us makes it plain!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Father, Spirit, and The Son

Michael E. Wood
June 27, 2011

1st John 1:2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us-

While pondering this passage as a part of preparation for a Bible study, thoughts arose in my mind concerning the difference between “the life” and “the eternal life”. To the apostle John, along with the other apostles, the life of Jesus while on earth was openly displayed and witnessed by them. From the effectual call to follow him, to every word spoken in purity and with the power of the Holy Spirit, to every work which continually affirmed him to be the Son of God come in the flesh, the life was made manifest. In the gospel attributed to the same writer, he closes out the account therein by saying, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”

Though these brief words are sadly and woefully disproportionate in regards to explanation, I rejoice in the fact that our Father is pleased in our contemplations of the glories of His grace as revealed not only in the written word but by His mighty Spirit in the person of Christ Himself. For he was eternally with the Father before all creation, came to earth in the form of a man, lived the life of obedience to the Father’s will that we could not live, even unto death, the death of the cross. He took upon Himself our sin, shedding his blood and offering himself up as the only sacrifice sufficient to deliver us from the wrath to come. He was buried for our offences and raised again for our justification. Overcoming sin, death, and hell on behalf of all appointed by the Father who would put their trust in Him, he ascended to the right hand of the Father, and lives to make intercession for us. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son has not life, for He is life eternal.

By grace through faith, which is the gift of God we are likewise made partakers of His life and it is this same Jesus of whom and by whom we are made witnesses not only of his life while here on earth but forever unto His glory and eternal praise.

Arrested by His loving voice,
Called of God by Sovereign choice
By faith made now to see and hear
Like those who by Him knew God’s fear,
To witness water turned to wine
And raised the sick by simple line,
Spoken with authority,
That to God all the glory be.


Walked on water, calmed the storm,
Each day the works of God perform,
As grace and truth poured from the lips
Of Christ the One who still equips
The members of His body each,
That we be used and others reach
As vessels, Holy Spirit filled,
Rejoicing as the Father willed
Perfections spoken by the law
From Sinai fulfilled them all
That perfect in obedience
Jesus would in every sense
Become as man the sacrifice,
Pay in full the awful price,
As all our sins are blotted out
To join as one the festal shout,


Eternal life, eternal praise
Is now our theme eternal days
Till all shall culminate in One,
The Father, Spirit, and The Son!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Christ-Likeness Fashioned

Michael E. Wood
June 23, 2011

Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Thy Name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for Thy Name’s sake.


There are dangers in focusing on ourselves as individuals concerning change in our lives. If our desire is stimulated by either feeling better about ourselves or outwardly looking better to others, our motivation is far from pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. When God has done a work of grace in our hearts through the merit of Christ alone, the outward manifestations may not be very apparent at all depending on the former character of the individual. In some cases an outwardly radical change may prove to be a work of common grace rather than that of particular redemptive grace, but will surely become manifest at the Judgment seat of God if not before then..

From God’s perspective, as He speaks and manifests His will by the Word of His grace, His glory is the primary purpose of our salvation, for His glory is worth more than the souls of all men. Thus our definitive sanctification both individually and as His body is a part of the covenant of grace established between God the Father and God the Son before all creation, and our progressive sanctification manifests the work of His Spirit evidenced first by change within that no one else on earth may be privy to by immediate observation, and yet the heart rejoices in God our Savior through our Lord Jesus Christ and rejoices in the obedience of Christ alone as it’s full satisfaction. For of Him and through Him, and to Him are things; to Whom belongs glory and honor and power, and blessing both now and forevermore. Amen

Our sanctification issues not
By the works from our own hands,
But only from a heart made new
In Christ made strong and stands
Against the torrents of the passions
Springing from sinful lusts,
Enabled by the Spirit’s power
To fulfill the Almighty musts
That come from God alone
As a Father Who surely will fulfill
All He has promised showing the glory
Of Christ who did all of His will.


So help us Dear Father Who now in this life
You’ve called by Your great Sovereign choice,
And justified freely as only in Jesus
We’re made to hear truth in the voice
Of Him that from heaven now speaketh to all
Removing the things that are shaken
Till we stand on the mount of Your infinite love
And shine like the light of a beacon.


We praise You for grace by which You exalt
Yourself to show mercy to us
And cause us to know the way in to walk
As You gave us The Song of Your chorus.


So if now you’re made to see and believe;
God’s glory your one greatest passion,
His grace you will find sufficient through time
As your being is Christ-likeness fashioned.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Beyond All Mortal Means

Michael E. Wood
June 22, 2011


Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through the one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.


God’s grace is super-abounding
And to it there is no end.
This attribute is His alone.
The free gift He did send,
By one man Jesus Christ,
Grace hath abounded unto many,
Though undeserved by mortal man,
Not even one; not any!


Much more than the forgiveness
Of which we were in need
And more than all the cleansing
Of every thought and word, and deed.
More than restoration where
In Adam we had fell,
And more than just a way to keep
Us from a burning hell.


Much higher our position now
Than before in Adam’s innocence,
For in Christ Jesus we have all
He purchased as a recompense.
And though in awe we do not yet
Completely understand,
His Word declares and makes us know
All things are in His hand.


Almighty Spirit come and help
Us always to draw nigh
And rejoice in hope of this
Great truth You do apply,
That the glory of our God
And Father will be seen
In all those who do rejoice
Beyond all mortal means.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Your Infinite Glory

Michael E. Wood
June 18, 2011

John 17:10 All mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.

Once we are born again, we begin to understand and grow in the purpose for which we were first created and secondly regenerated by the Spirit of the Living God through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Hence, to glorify God and enjoy Him forever!

Our sanctification is the fruit and the result of the sanctification and satisfaction of Christ Himself.

How precious is our God and Savior as He leads His dear children along, often in ways we are not aware of until after the fact. Having completed reading a message by Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones concerning our Covenant making and Covenant keeping God, I had viewed the time that was yet available to do a little reading and read a sermon by Robert Murray McCheyne, entitled, I The LORD Have Called Thee in Righteousness The following are excerpts from that sermon:

Isa. 42:6-8 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

In this passage we have some of the most wonderful words that ever were uttered in the world. It is not a man speaking to a man. It is not even God speaking to a man. It is God speaking to his own Son. Oh, who would not listen? It is as if we were secretly admitted into the counsel of God, as if we stood behind the curtains of his dwelling-place, or were hidden in the clefts of the rock, and overheard the words of the eternal Father to the eternal Son.

Learn the greatness of your sins. Remember Christ had no sins of his own. No wrath was due himself; all that wrath he bore was ours. You that are believers, you have but a small sense of the greatness of your sins. Oh! Look here; see God holding the hand of his Son, while he wades through the sea of wrath! Oh! Surely a look at a suffering Christ should keep you in the dust for ever. You must never open your mouth any more. And, oh! Will you not love him who so loved you, who lay down under these surges and billows of God’s wrath for you?

Your infinite glory Oh help us express
By the word and the life of all true holiness.
For that which is Yours and not shared with another
Can only be seen in our great Elder Brother;
You took by the hand and You led through the sea
Of Your infinite wrath which would have consumed me.

And my soul melts with tears when I think of Your love
That You lavished on us by Your Son from above.
For He in our place and New Covenant Head,
Endured to the end on the cross in our stead.

Oh stir our affections anew in the light
Of Jesus in whom is Your glorious delight,
Forsaking all things of no profit below
That he for Your glory some others will know.

Oh Spirit of God please do come and effect
The word of Your grace through our lives to project
The infinite value of Christ and the call
Of God only wise, Who is LORD overall.

We thank You Oh Father for great Sovereign kisses
You give with each day that none of Yours misses.
For as You take pleasure and to us display
The work of Your hands that we too might convey,
The faith that You caused us to see and to feel
That others might come to know Jesus is real.

We praise You for mercy, though we be but gentiles,
As You look through Christ Jesus and show us Your smiles.