Imagine There’s a Place

Michael E. Wood
August 2, 2011

Psalm 6:1-3

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh faints for You, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary, beholding Your power and glory. Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

So often we look to the Psalms for personal comfort in the light of our own particular situations without a thought of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ in them. Yet he who bore our grief’s can be readily seen in the midst of them. David was a type of Christ in the wilderness.

Having already lived for thirty years on this earth as a man and having been baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Every moment He was in this world, the sinless Son of God breathed the sin corrupted air with His eyes firmly fixed on the glory of God which was the primary purpose for which He came. After forty days of fasting, He was tempted of the devil and overcame with the confidence that the steadfast love of the Father is better than life itself.

Imagine there’s a place with putrid rotten smell
With corruptive flesh awaiting fires of burning hell.
And yet this is the place where Jesus entered in
When He came to earth to redeem us from our sin.


Imagine there’s a place where stone immoral hearts
Were constantly projecting at you poison, fiery darts.
And yet this is the place God chose to come and hide
His glory in a veil of flesh, in Jesus to abide.


Imagine there’s a place all filled with sin and pride
And yet that is the heart of everyone for whom Christ died.
Oh the bane; corruptive hearts all filled with such resistance
To the One who walked alone amidst such vile persistence.


Oh can you not now see, the clear reality,
That this is you and this is me, who nailed Him to the tree?
But Oh what glorious wonder that He would live so long
Upon this earth; fulfill the law for those to Him belong.


For we can not imagine the price He did fulfill
That in Himself alone He did place on Zion’s hill
A remnant by the covenant He sealed with His Own blood,
Exhausting all the wrath of God which will then like a flood
O’erwhelm all those whose house is built; deceptive sinking sand.
For none but those in Christ alone, will in the judgment stand.


Oh trust not in mere feelings, but in God’s truth abide,
For He sees us as we are, in Jesus as we hide.
In Him alone our only hope who spanned the great divide,
And through the cross He guides us by His Spirit to confide,
With confidence that only He can to our conscience give,
As we by Him now seek His face and for His glory live.


Oh praise Him for His faithfulness, Who in His love is just
To forgive our sins and cleanse us from our every lust.
For only by His jealousy for righteousness revealed
In Christ alone do we have hope and in Him are concealed,
Until that day that He with joy, as faultless shall present
Us to Himself as His chaste bride for whom to earth was sent
By God the Father, Who in Him as One proclaims His Name,
Jehovah Is the great “I Am”, forevermore the same!