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Friday, October 21, 2022

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

© Janet Martin

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.




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