The Crown He’ll Wear

Michael E. Wood

February 23-25, 2013

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19

While reading through “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ”, an exposition of Ephesians Chapter three by D. Martyn Lloyd Jones, Dianna had made a treasury for her Etsy Team Jabez. She was notified that God had used her in an unusual way to bring comfort to someone who had lost a child via miscarriage. As she relayed this story with tears in her eyes to me, the words of the following poem had already begun to flow.

We thank You for Your tenderness

And great compelling love

By which You draw us to Yourself

Through manifestations of

Your very presence in our hearts

To melt and mold and make

Us more into Your likeness

For Your glory and Names sake.

For left unto ourselves

Our every effort would be vain

As doubts and fears would cloud

The very path that You make plain.

But You, Oh gentle Shepherd

On Your shoulders hold us tight

And carry every moment

By the power of Your might.

Forgive us when we’re slow to see

How great You really are

While working all things for our good

When we feel yet afar.

By Your design, Oh help us know

The love we know not yet;

The height, the depth, the breadth, the width

By Him, You did beget-

Who bore upon Himself all of

Our sin to bring us nigh

Unto Yourself, Oh Holy Father

As You dwell on high,

But also as Your Word declares,

In humble contrite hearts

Who yield to You and thus pursue

Your praise in all our parts-

For every member of the body;

Of Christ’s flesh and bones,

You have made to glorify

Him here, as living stones,

Receiving of His fullness

Both of grace and truth to be

The Jewels of the crown

He’ll wear for all eternity.