From This Time Forth, Forevermore

The Psalm I keep on our refrigerator door

was this mornings Bible Reading in Our Daily Bread Devotion.

Though I have read this Psalm many times this morning

the last line confounded my comprehension!

From this time forth, forevermore

What joy and peace to know

Our loving God behind, before

Above us and below

Greater is He within us than

He that is in the world

No evil can frustrate the span

Of hope’s banner unfurled

Above, beneath and all around

Goodness and mercy pour

Where nothing can God’s plan confound

Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore

Compassion without end

A kind Advocate to restore

What sin alone would rend

But God’s atoning sacrifice

His pardon once for all

By faith’s confession will suffice

To save us from The Fall

And by His all-sufficient grace

Where doubt’s dark demons roar

Naught can love’s finished work erase

Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore

Oh Lord, renew our minds

Through humble eyes of faith restore

Our sight, where this world blinds

Where unbelieving scads applaud

Sin’s godless diocese

Yet none can thwart the love of God

Who grants faith perfect peace

Whose will it is that none die, lost

Spurning the cross He bore

To pay sin’s overwhelming cost

Both now and evermore

From this time forth forevermore

Thought cannot comprehend

The vastness of love’s reservoir

Abounding without end

Who sits enthroned above the earth

And stretches out the sky

Like grasshoppers filled with His worth

We wait on his reply

As the perfected love of God

Commands us to obey

His Truth established on a Rock

That does not shift or sway

From this time forth forevermore

Oh pray, in Him we trust

Earth’s nations like a droplet's score

Or like a speck of dust

But our God is not like these

He holds earth’s basket-land

He cups the waters of the seas

In hollows of His Hand

He tends His flock with staff and rod

Of comfort; come, adore

Him, our everlasting God

Both now and evermore

© Janet Martin

1 John 2:1-6 (BSB)

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin.

 But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—

Christ, the Righteous One. Himself is the atoning sacrificea for our sins, 

and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

4If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments,

he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 

5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. 

By this we know that we are in Him:

6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

Who is our God?!!

Isa. 40!