Then Ships Ahoy And On We Sail...

This sea upon which we set sail 

Where thick of night is a black veil 

Until white, fading stars exhale 

To fill the mast of morn with day... 

Rescue The Perishing

The Stranger of Galilee 

Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy

This sea upon which we set sail 

Where thick of night is a black veil 

Until white, fading stars exhale 

To fill the mast of morn with day 

Is glossed with frost in autumn-tide 

Is tossed with waves of want-fear-pride 

Where drops of moment-measure hide 

What waits to test the vessel’s sway 

This surge of highways, hills and trees 

Composes a landscape of seas 

-ons juxtaposed with jeopardies 

Of treachery, hunger and woe 

But we of the household of faith 

Are not doomed to death's dreaded fate

Christ anchors hope beneath the spate 

Of deadly current’s undertow 

Then ships ahoy and on we sail 

Buoyed by joy that will not fail 

Mercy deploys both calm and gale 

With loving kindness, full and free 

Then to the drifting dory call 

Caution the careless, reckless yawl 

Lest by some sudden 'weather-brawl'

They fall into eternity 

© Janet Martin 

God's Infallible Purpose in Christ

Hebrews 6:13-20

For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” 15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. 17Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the [f]immutability of His counsel, [g]confirmed it by an oath, 18that by two [h]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we [i]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, 20where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.