Mission Manifesto

 

Lord, let the Certainty of what we know

guide us through all we do not!

I love you, Lord

We stand so small beneath the tall outpouring of the sky 

Ah, what is man that God, who spreads yon span knows you and I 

And loves us still, and bids us trust in His unfailing care 

While round about the world seems bound with doubt, hate and despair 

If God is for us who can be against us; hence we go 

In kind humility to bind the wounds of our foe 

For if we simply love our own, we mimic pagan spec 

Ah, who can stay afloat with hate’s millstone tied round the neck 

We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of our God 

And who are we, if God loves us that He should spare the rod 

For a father who loves his child will discipline and chide 

Lest by omission we perceive his blessing on our pride 

We cannot understand the thoughts and ways of He who gave 

His sinless Son to suffer unto death our souls to save 

But by his grace (and only by His grace) we will succeed 

Because His love will be enough to supply our need 

Lord, grant us wisdom through your Word to see through evil’s lies 

Lest, by conceit or folly we fall prey to truth’s disguise 

Lead us not into temptation; deliver us from vice 

And thought’s unrighteousness into love’s law of sacrifice 

© Janet Martin 

Psalm 8

Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory

in the heavens.

2 Through the praise of children and infants

you have established a stronghold against your enemies,

to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens,

the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which you have set in place,

4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,

human beings that you care for them?[c]

5 You have made them[d] a little lower than the angels[e]

and crowned them[f] with glory and honor.

6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands;

you put everything under their[g] feet:

7 all flocks and herds,

and the animals of the wild,

8 the birds in the sky,

and the fish in the sea,

all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!