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.