For Your Name's Sake...

Unlike Queen Esther's husband, the Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), 

who, if any came into his inner court without being summoned, 

would be put to death, unless the king held out his golden scepter,

 The Kings of kings beckons all to 'come' 

because He came to break death's curse and bring us life 

and more abundantly!

His blood-wrought/bought scepter is stretched out to one and all!

What a high call and glorious purpose

is our freedom from slaves to sin/Satan, to servants of Christ!

Nearer, Still Nearer

  

More Love to Thee

For Your Name’s sake, help us take up our cross and follow You

And make love’s price of sacrifice an honor, meek and true

Kindle in us, Lord Jesus, faith’s vision, profound and keen

Of ‘substance of things hoped for, evidence of things unseen’

For Your Name’s Sake, Lord Jesus, wake in us the awesome sense

Of beckoning and reckoning; of Choice and Recompense

….and immense Aftermath; of grace or wrath’s eternal sum

(With blood-wrought streams, love’s scepter gleams and beckons all to ‘come’)

For Thy Name’s sake, Lord Jesus, make us more and more like Thee

Not vain, loud, proud, crowd-pleasers but full of humility

Thy pain and loss upon death’s cross our gain; You bore our shame

Forbid we boast save in love’s uttermost; Salvation’s Name

For Your Name’s Sake Lord Jesus, break the will that still resists

Open our eyes to want The Prize that some deny exists

Unclench the fist that clings to mist; with holy hunger wake

The sacred call to give our all for Your precious Name’s sake

© Janet Martin