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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Love Song for God's Word


Ps.119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.





Oh, how I love God’s word
His Presence fills each page
His loving kindness undergirds
Faith’s flight, from age to age

He comforts and assures
He leads us in the Way
His everlasting law endures
Come whatsoever may

His goodness, truth and Light
For all faith cannot see
Equips us with power and might
To face the enemy

To recognize sin’s ploy
To guard against the foe
To reaffirm the hope and joy
Only He can bestow

To keep in perfect peace
The mind transfixed on Him
To generate wisdom’s increase
And bid worldly views dim

To bridge the cosmic gap
That else would gape between
To expose the vile tempter’s trap
Alluring and obscene

To tell me of His love
Of mercy’s staff and rod
To caution, correct and reprove
And instill man with God

To rekindle the flame
His gift of grace began
As I uttered the only name
That saves the soul of man

To remind me to trust
He who supplies each need
And counts my numbered days of dust
Tried by doubt, fear and greed

Oh, how I love God’s word
To wake in you and me
A hymn of worship undeterred
For all eternity

His promises sustain
The faith that fain would fail
Save for the Fount nothing can drain
Of love that will prevail

As we, surrounded by
A cloud of witnesses
Commit each desperate heart-cry
To God's kind faithfulness

Where His Voice breaks the bread
That restoreth the soul
Then, as spirit-hunger is fed
Once more faith is made whole

His Word alone provides
Unworldly fellowship
God ministers as man confides
And releases pride’s grip

His Word perfects the prayer
As we learn to be still
To listen, then life’s weight of care
Surrenders to His will

His Word beyond compare
My words inept to tell
The wonders we discover where
His changeless precepts dwell

Stayed anchor when gales sting
When opposing winds seethe
His Word covers me with His wing
And gathers me beneath

To thrill me with His love
To protect me from sin
Led by the soundless thunder of
His still, small voice within

Oh, how I love God’s word
Rich with mercy and grace
To cheer me on and undergird
 Until faith sees His face

© Janet Martin







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