More Than a String From the Sky

Hope Has a Name-River Valley Worship

  

No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus-Steffany Gretzinger

No One ever Cared for Me like Jesus (different from above)

Hope: the second most powerful

4-letter word in the English language after love!

Hope without Love is impossible.

God IS love!

The hope to which we cling is more than a string from the sky

It is the grace of God reached down to buoy you and I

It is a Beacon in the storm, an anchor for the soul

The touch that wakes the mustard seed of faith that makes us whole

It is the power of the cross where man’s redemption flows

The confidence in promises that nothing overthrows

It is the satisfaction that, (though oft misunderstood)

To all who love the Lord He works all things for our good

It is a still, small Voice that whispers while doubt’s cannons fly

‘The hope to which we cling is more than a string from the sky’

The cynic and the critic cannot thwart its sacred thread

The heathen and heretic cannot find a stable stead

The toast and boast of pagan pride can never satisfy

Only the Perfect Lamb that died to rescue you and I

From death and hell's damnation; from sin's cursed and lethal rope

The God of all creation became salvation and hope 

As He, so rich in mercy suffered our penalty

To rend the noose around our souls and set the sinner free

To restore to His bosom we who without Him would die

The hope to which we cling is more than a string from the sky 

© Janet Martin

This passage below was today's devotion and though a familiar favourite

 God's word has a way of leaving us completely smitten 

with the wonder of His love again and again

(read it more than once and feel your wonder increase with each reading)

Hallelujah! Praise God!

Let's live and love with honoured humility 

because of God's gift of grace!

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world 

and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, 

the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 

3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] 

and following its desires and thoughts. 

Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 

4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 

5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—

it is by grace you have been saved. 

6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, 

expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—

and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 

9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 

10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, 

which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:1-10