Oh, Let Love's Incense Rise

Wake up, wake up, break out in song!

Judges 5:12

There is only one way to keep the believer's worship hymn alive!

And that is revisiting the place where by faith we were made whole

at the foot of the cross of Calvary

and to marvel again and again at our Saviour's 

love that suffered so on our behalf

Alas and Did My Saviour Bleed?

Oh, let love’s incense rise poured out in prayerful throng

Let worship fill the earth and skies with hope’s unflinching song

To He who paid sin’s debt we owe a debt of love

To be as wise as serpents yet as harmless as a dove

To lay aside sin’s weight that easily ensnares

To believe rather than debate what God alone declares

To trust Him and obey; A conscientious thing

To pour on altars of Today Worship’s drink offering

For we are reconciled through grace no one can earn

Through Jesus Christ, who when reviled did not evil return

But yielded unto death to conquer Satan’s strife

So that faith with its dying breath would step from death to life

Because God is not slack concerning promises

Mercy holds heaven’s armies back in prolonged faithfulness

For He so loved the world He gave Himself to win

Deliverance from hell unfurled in punishment for sin

His precepts do not shift while He waits patiently

For all who do not have the gift purchased at Calvary

Oh, let love’s incense rise; poured out with joy and awe

As worship fills the earth and skies with praise for mercy's law

May love's song never cease but ever brim and brim

As more and more receive the peace that only comes from Him

Who is able always to do His perfect will

Then let worship with prayerful praise His glory spill and spill

(...for we have been set free from the death that did wait;

Divorced for all eternity from love, to Satan's hate)

The glory of the cross transforms love's agony

How little is the servant's cost compared to Calvary

 Then sing with heart and soul, the hymn of conquered dread

Because the faith that makes us whole will raise us from the dead

© Janet Martin

And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: 

thy faith hath made thee whole.

Luke 17:19