He Lifts me by His Word

Michael E. Wood

August 8, 2014

Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:1, 25-26

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8

What an encouraging word that our Great God, and Savior Jesus Christ speaks to the hearts He has made new through the sacrifice of Himself. What a wonder it is that God takes that which by nature is deceitful and desperately wicked and replaces it with a heart that is receptive and responsive to the purity that comes through Christ alone. And though it does not yet appear what we shall be, we know that when we see Jesus, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is!

Do you find the encouragement He gives, as He speaks through the Word by His Spirit to your own heart?

He lifts me by His Word within

This frame of dust I live

And brings such great delight in

Knowing he alone doth give

The passion for His excellence

So others will then see

Reflections of His glory

Emanating then through me.

And Oh, what expectations He

Doth build as we resign

Together for the gospel He has

Shown by His design,

To show Himself all glorious

Within the church He bought

With Christ’s own blood, as angels

Watch o’er all that He has sought.

So cry to Him, Oh pure in heart,

Add quickness to the pace,

Endure with joy and patience till

We see His smiling face.

And as that day approaches,

Holy Father, God, and Friend,

Fulfill our one desire to see

Your glory as our end.