Because of God Who Loves Us Faithfully

 With glory, pouring out the morning sky...

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you;

 therefore He rises to show you compassion, 

for the LORD is a just God. 

Blessed are all who wait for Him.

After a stretch of no sunrises,

the glorious colours of today's dawn 

were welcomed and beheld with eager joy!

Because of God who loves us faithfully

And hems us in with Hands no foe can wend

With Knowledge far too wonderful for me

With mercy, more than thought can comprehend

With glory pouring out the morning sky

With goodness spread like a lavish buffet

Before the sorry likes of you and I

With steadfast joy no sorrow can dismay

With grace, the only grace that breaks death’s curse

With hope that anchors the immortal soul

With awe that He who tends the universe

Indwells us with the faith that makes us whole

Compelling us to love’s devout reply

With deeds that bear faith’s witness undeterred

With self-surrender’s humble ‘here am I’

With earnest heed to all that we have heard

Without reserve, to let our longing be

Fulfilled by what the cross of Christ has won

Because of God who loves us faithfully

And in our sorry stead, offered His Son

To be the sacrifice for our sins

To pay its debt no mortal could defeat

To prove hate, death and darkness never wins

To rise again, salvation’s work complete

…and nothing can annul what He has done

While generations rise and fall like waves

The Mighty Cornerstone of Christendom

Abides, astride earth’s girth stippled with graves

That harbor dust and ash of toil and strife

But not the Soul, returned with tender care

To He whose love will search the Book of Life

To see if the soul’s name is written there

...Because of God who loves us faithfully

Because of the cruel cost/cross His dear Son braved

We need not dread Death’s dismal certainty

If we have called upon Him to be saved

© Janet Martin

Isaiah 25:9

And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; 

we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. 

This is the LORD for whom we have waited. 

Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness,

 but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish

 but everyone to come to repentance.

John 3:14-19

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

I Love You, Lord