Showing posts with label All For Christ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All For Christ. Show all posts

Monday, July 10, 2023

I Am a Master of Excuse

This excerpt from the message below moved me to tears...
Oh! that this would be my true ambition.

Christian contentment
is the direct fruit
of having no higher ambition
than to belong to the Lord
and to be entirely
at His disposal.

Alistair Begg


  


I am a master of excuse and pious coquetry
I fit finely inside replies of I and my and me
I am far, far too readily induced to compensate
For second miles I’d rather not suffer; the cost too great
I rise to meet the day and pray, then forget easily
That I can do all I can do through Christ who strengthens me

For when I repent and believe I am ‘mine own’ no more
But ought to be devoted to the Saviour I adore
And ought to be, with every gifted breath and day, content
Because by grace I have been saved; the temple veil is rent
And I, invited to boldly approach the throne of grace
Will receive grace and mercy to supply each need I face

I am a wretch; yet Christ loves with an everlasting love
By His divine power He fits me for Heaven above
Therefore I have no boast but this; the blood of Jesus Christ
Who broke the curse of sin and death through Himself, sacrificed
For I, a master of excuse, who forgets easily
That I can do all I can do through Christ who strengthens me

© Janet Martin

Gal.2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, 
but Christ lives in me. 
The life I now live in the body, 
I live by faith in the Son of God, 
who loved me and gave himself for me.

Phil.4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Rom.7:24-25
O wretched man that I am! 
Who will deliver me from this body of death? 
 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!








Thursday, September 29, 2022

What More Then, Do We Need?



Tis quite a thing to contemplate
The measure of love's price
It's law no one can mediate
To keep, or sacrifice

 Where what we sacrifice for Who
Tells who our allegiance is to
What joy when what is sacrificed 
 Turns loss to gain, when done for Christ 
***
He forgives our sins and remembers them no more!
What more do we need?

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake
 and remembers your sins no more.

You discern thought’s intents
You look into the heart
Still, morning spills the evidence
Of mercies You impart



You lavish us with love
You keep us in Your care
Your Word, a wondrous treasure trove
Of wealth beyond compare

You hear us when we pray
Your light dispels dark doubt
Your grace sufficient, come what may
Your ways past finding out

You discern thought’s intents
You look into the heart
Still, morning spills the evidence
Of mercies You impart

Your well never runs dry
Where Living Waters roll
Your Bread of Life will satisfy
The hunger of the soul

Your Son died in our stead
One sacrifice for all
To free us from the curse that led
To hell after The Fall

Where blood of bull and ram
Could never pay sin’s price
Jesus, the only spotless Lamb
Fit for the sacrifice

What a gift we receive
You gave the best you had
So, all who repent and believe
May call you Abba-Dad

What more then, do we need
Where greed for gain runs wild
Your goodness is enough to feed
All who become Your child

You lavish us with love
You keep us in Your care
Our hope in You, more than enough
For every cross we bear

Where, when death runs us through
Death is not the last word
But simply the Grand Entrance to
Forever with You, Lord

What more then, can we say
You make our joy complete
As we press on toward That Day
When earth and Heaven meet 

Then, how awed we will be
All that we sacrificed
A pittance, as eternity
Consummates, All for Christ 

© Janet Martin


John 1:12
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name,
 He gave the right to become children of God--