Everlasting Treasure

Psalm 143:8

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;

for in thee do I trust:

cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;

for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Psalm 144:15

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: 

yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me, and know my anxieties;

And see if there is any wicked way in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting.

Jim and I went on a rural Ontario drive yesterday...

We got caught in the middle of a bit of a different kind of traffic-jam!

after Sunday afternoon instruction classes for baptism were over...

This is the time of year when ditches become wild flower gardens

As enjoyable as the drive was, like all outings

its pleasure is momentary...

Earth simply cannot offer anything everlasting...

except God's Word!

Here is a treasure worth seeking!

This is no fruitless endeavor

This is no fool’s gold we seek

When we search the Holy Scriptures

We will find strength for the weak

We will find the road to glory

We will find hope for the soul

We will find love’s sweetest story

For the faith that makes us whole

We will find God’s kind forgiveness

Righteousness, wisdom and joy

Counsel, comfort, Friend and fortress

That no power can destroy

We will find the Rock of Ages

Guidance, armour for the fight

When we search these sacred pages

Full of grace and truth and light

When we search the Holy Scriptures

When upon God’s Word we feed

We will find unfathomed riches

To supply our every need

Here is peace past understanding

Earth’s anchor to Heaven’s throne

Here is assurance unending

Refuge and Chief Cornerstone

When we ask we will be given

When we seek, there we will find

When we knock our God will open

The door of heart, soul and mind

…this is no fruitless endeavor

Here God hears us when we call

Here is everlasting treasure

Without measure, free to all

© Janet Martin

Isa.55:6

Seek the LORD while he may be found;

 call on him while he is near.

Isaiah 26:9

My soul longs for You in the night; 

indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. 

For when Your judgments come upon the earth, 

the people of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness.

 I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek Me in a wasteland.'

 I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; 

for I am God, and there is no other.