Music To God's Ears

 

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

On Sunday mornings our recent messages

have been from the Book of James.

What a wonderful book full of wise counsel!

(And much to prick every conscience if we care about being more than hearers)

We all have in common the mercy that metes each new day...

and though our callings and circumstances vary...

(some days sweeter, cuter and tastier than others)

...we all are loved and will all give accountant to One God and Father of all.

Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, 

and through all, and in you all.

Not hearers only, Lord

Let the law of Thy Word

Be more than grace and truth outpoured

But leaves the heart unstirred

As we hear, Lord, I pray

We heed Thy Spirit’s woo

So everything we do and say

Will bring glory to You

Where love abounds until

Our Self is crucified

Content to trust Thy Word and will

With nothing else beside

If we ask, you will give

If we seek, we will find

If we knock You will come to live

In faith’s heart, soul and mind

Then hope and joy and peace

Become reality

As word and deed yield love’s increase

‘Not I, but Christ in Me’

What music to God's ears

When His children obey

Then He, Who Is The Word appears

In what we do and say 

© Janet Martin

What music to a parents 'ears'/eyes, when we see our children take

loving counsel to heart...

 how ever much more our Heavenly Father!

All God's Creatures Have A Place in the Choir

Psalm 100

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Worship the Lord with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the Lord is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his[a];

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Believer's Mandate

Sunday sermons aren't just for Sundays, are they?!!

Love is so much easier said than done, isn't it?!

Just a few thoughts after attending a beautiful wedding yesterday

and listening to a few inspired messages this morning!

This poem, by inserting the words 'ought to' between the words

 'we' and 'live'

may make it more relevant😅🙏

Love is a lifetime commitment on so many levels

in so many ways, to so many people

and above all to/through He who IS love

More Love to Thee-Fernando Ortega 

We live, not just to earn our daily bread and meat to eat

We live to learn better how to wash one another’s feet

We live to give because of what we have freely received

God’s gift of grace from the first moment we truly believed

We live to love God first then fellowman; all else is sin

We live to prove the righteousness and love of God within

We live to mirror Christ’s example of humility

Where pray, nothing is dearer than the truth that sets us free

We live to serve, not to be served, stirred by meek reverence

For He who loved us first and died for death’s deliverance

Then pray when temptation torments and cunning ploys compete

That love’s willing obedience will make our joy complete

For God so loved the world He gave His Son to pay sin’s debt

Once, and for all He overthrew the grave and conquered death

God is not mocked; if we confessed our sin and have believed

We ought to live to give because we have freely received

© Janet Martin

Due to laryngitis and a cough I decided it would be better

to worship from home this Sunday morning,

Links to a few sermons which

  partly inspired this poem!

Do Not Give The Devil a Foothold- Alistair Begg 

July 3rd Message at WBC

Immaculate Impressions

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, 

as though God were making an appeal through us; 

we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 

21 He made Him who knew no sin to be [j]sin in our behalf, 

so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Cor.5:20-21

The Anchor of hope’s diligence nods and the heavens laugh

With mercy’s renewed evidence in daybreak’s autograph

We, as ambassadors for He, whose pardon reconciles

If clothed in Christ's humility, will recognize God’s smiles

Morning’s podium broods with beckoning to human race

Come, taste and see the goodness and compassion of His grace

We as ambassadors for He whose kindness perseveres

If tuned to Christ's tenacity, will recognize God’s tears

Trouble’s relentless ways and means resumes its Dreaded Must

Temptation’s primal hunger keens needles threaded with dust/trust

We, as ambassadors for He in whose Word we rejoice

If yielded to Christ's Sovereignty, will recognize God’s voice

The Giver of love’s grin and groan reignites heaven’s wick

Where stumbling block and stepping stone cuts courage to the quick

We, as ambassadors for He who is First in Command

If armed with Christ's security, will recognize God’s Hand

© Janet Martin

A good gardening day seems to be unfolding!

An opportunity to do the late-season planting.

Thank-you, Lord!

Wonder-full Compulsion! Plus Butter Tart Recipe 😋

Sometimes the ho-hums of housework

would not feel like an honor to perform

until we look beyond it's façade 

to love,

and glimpse the face of God

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus:

that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves,

but for Him who died for them and rose again.

2 Cor.5:14-15

Isn't the Love of Jesus Something Wonderful

Compelled by love for He who gave His all, oh let it be

Drawn with desire to put on dear Christ’s humility

For God so loved the world He gave His Son to pay sin’s debt

He rent the bondage of the grave, oh may we ne’er forget

Compelled by love, to honor He who to self-will did die

To offer ourselves to be love’s penitent reply

Where more than Call of Duty bids us bear life’s yoke and rod

With the unhidden beauty of a heart yielded to/exalting God

Compelled by love, first for our God and then for fellowman

Oh, blissful state as we applaud, through servanthood, His plan

Where love did not demand from us the recompense for sin

But rather gave his Son Jesus, His gift of grace to win

Compelled by love, ah, as we contemplate the sacrifice

What higher call could captivate or be worth greater price

Life’s meekest merit never fails; He who is Love supplies

His Spirit's strength as faith prevails and strains toward the Prize

© Janet Martin

Doesn't love's beauty always sweeten the duty?! Aren't you glad?

...some small  'sweetness-es'

sometimes come in the form of

Warm Butter Tart!

Oh!! I'm sorry. Would you like one too?

Here is the best recipe I know!

My mother's...

Post-Eden Post-Calvary Pre-Eternity

Inspired in part by a world washed white with snow...

after yesterday's sunshine, blue skies and robin songs!

But mostly inspired by today's devotion...

Above devotion from the book

Morning by Morning Daily Devotional Readings by Charles Spurgeon

Gen3:1

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field 

which the LORD God had made. 

And he said unto the woman, 

Yea, hath God said, 

Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Sin wields its will with wily art

To ease us into apathy

Unless we stand on solemn guard

We cannot fight the enemy

Or recognize ravenous wolves

Clothed cunningly in sheep’s disguise

Or war against the hiss that pulls

Its crafty wool over our eyes

Sin wants perpetrators to wink

At what should cause us agony

Deception hoists its sparkling drink

Without a care for Calvary

It soothes the sacred prick of guilt

And woos the conscience with excuse

It drowns the groans where Pardon spilt

With pleasure’s lure and laughter’s ruse

Sin is the foe, though hard to tell

It masquerades as friend to all

Sin decorates the road to hell

With what keeps us comfortable

No caution signs to notify

The crowd that throngs the downward slope

Ah, who will save them from the lie

That scorns the cross and Living Hope

Sin blinds half-seekers to the truth

The Tempter, a most subtil beast

Preys on the innocence of youth

It bribes desire with a feast

Without the whole armor of God

Not one would stand a fighting chance

Fooled by hell’s beguiling façade

And frauds that foster ignorance

Sin, surely sin has cursed us all

Its fruit, so pleasing to the eye

We ate and partook of the Fall

That caused the Son of God to die

But Death could not contain I Am

The victory it could not win

Sin could not taint the sinless Lamb

He rose triumphant over sin

Sin wields its weapons, but take heart

The blood of Christ cleanses its stain

And we can thwart its evil dart

If we on solemn guard remain

After we repent and believe

Sin is not master anymore

The Holy Spirit we receive

Will aid if we for aid implore

© Janet Martin

Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves;

 therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, 

your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

Love's Dimensions

Thankfully, Thoroughly Equipped...

Greater Is He

Instead of cursing and condemning each other we should pray!

Esp. for the leaders of every country in the world!

It's so easy to become distracted by what we see

of fruits of deeds done in darkness

Psalm 8 begins and ends with this glorious

phrase of praise...

Lord, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Believers are called to be the salt of the earth 

and the light of the world...

Matt.5:14-16

You are the light of the world. 

A town/city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 

15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. 

Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 

16 In the same way, let your light shine before others,

 that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

The believer is equipped

(because greater is He that is in me/ us

than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4)

for whatever we face,

through our Lord's Majestic Name!

May our lives be an offering of praise!

Our glorious God grants everything we need ...

2 Tim.3:16-17

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,

and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,

for [c]instruction in righteousness,

17that the man of God may be complete,

thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Praise He who equips us thoroughly!

Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me...City Alight

Goodness, though evil prospers

Kindness to counter sneers

Pity for profane scoffers

And malicious compeers

Mercy, in spite of meanness

Love for the enemy

Oh, may this be the witness

Of Christ in you and me

A meek and gentle spirit

Strength greater than man’s might

Armor of holy merit

That fits us for the fight

So, when we face our giants

All that the world will see

Is grace to crush defiance

With Christ’s humility

A hope-transformed perspective

The power to endure

A far greater objective

Than this world can secure

In each new morning breaking

A heart amazed and awed

Because of the breathtaking

Majestic name of God

A purpose, pure and pleasing

To heed love’s highest call

Redemption’s charge releasing

The captive from the fall

The faith by which none perish

The hymn to worship He

Whose testament we cherish

The power of Christ in me

A patient perseverance

Until earth yields its claim

And we see without hindrance

Our Lord’s majestic name

When faith concludes its story

With perfect clarity

As we behold/extol the glory

Of Christ eternally

© Janet Martin

Role Call or Perfectly Placed

Above all, our role in love is to trust and obey!

Trust and Obey Vagle Bros.

No confession of loving laud

However great or grand

Absolves obedience to God

The two go hand in hand

No matter who we are, my love

However great or small

No one is super-star enough

To disregard love’s call

True love is not proven in speech

But with meek reverence

Love is the action that will teach

Humble obedience

The role we all are called into

Begins at Calvary

Where love bears witness to One who

Taught through humility

Do not let love despair, dear one

His commands are not hard

When we keep our eyes fixed on

Love’s Leading Hands, nail-scarred

When we receive God's gift of grace

When hearts meeken in awe

How sacred is our perfect place

As love fulfills God’s law

© Janet Martin

Food for Thought;

In today's churches

Are there too many silent men because

there are too many speaking women

or

are there too many speaking women because

there are too many silent men?

Did feminism progress in the church because

good women stepped in where good men did not

or did good men step aside/get 'nudged' aside

 in the order of their God-ordained rank

when women whose intentions were for good

stepped out of their God-ordained order?

1 Cor.11

1 Cor.14:26-39

1 Tim.2

Male or female, we have equal value in the eyes of God

 but we have very sacred and differing roles!

Titus 2:1-8

You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect,

 self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live,

 not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 

5 to be self-controlled and pure,

 to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, 

so that no one will malign the word of God.

6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 

7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good.

 In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 

8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, 

so that those who oppose you may be ashamed 

because they have nothing bad to say about us.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;

 for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

John 14:23-24

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;

 and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; 

and the word which you hear is not Mine 

but the Father's who sent Me.

Conditional Blessing

Heb.11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, 

because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists 

and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

There are definitely some 'conditions' when it comes to

reaping a harvest of joy...

Love is no sit-back-and-enjoy-the-benefits sport,,

but rather a life of diligent, servant-heart obedience

not to gain/keep our salvation but to say/prove

I love you, Lord!

If we desire God to bless

Our lives with joy’s true happiness

We have a vital part to play

In His reply; we must obey

If we long for His peace to fill

Our hearts though storms and struggles spill

It will, for He is kind and just

His peace will prevail, if we trust

If we want to find we must seek

And learn to turn the other cheek

Not answer blow with counter-blow

But in humility, bow low

If we want to reap joy so sweet

Then Self must first take a back seat

Before faith’s field can yield non-stop

Fruits-of-the-Spirit bumper-crop

His love does not indulge our greed

But will supply our every need

He will not leave us comfortless

If we believe His promises

So, if we ask for God to bless

Our lives with joy and happiness

We have a vital part to play

In His reply; if we obey

© Janet Martin

Romans 5:1-5

Therefore, having been justified by faith,

  [a]we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  2through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, 

and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

  3And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, 

knowing that tribulation produces [b]perseverance;

  4and perseverance, [c]character; and character, hope.

  5Now hope does not disappoint, 

because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts 

by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

1 John 2:3

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him:

 if we keep His commandments.

Trust and Obey-Don Moen

Obey God and Leave the Consequences to Him - Charles Stanley

Beautiful Life Because...

Yet Not I, But Christ in Me

 

By the grace of God I am what I am, 

and his grace toward me was not in vain. 

On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, 

though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

 (1 Corinthians 15:10) ESV

Farther Along-Brad Paisley

Last night I felt weary to the bone and kind of discouraged

When I called Jim he wondered what's up?

When I filled him in on some of life's/love's concerns he said

'so that's why you sound disheartened!

The word stuck. Disheartened.

So much need, needing weary willing workers to say 'yes!'

This morning's Daily Bread Devotion scripture

also spoke to the disheartened!

Disappointment, discouragement 

and grave concern for the future are nothing new!

Our God, the same yesterday, today and forever declares still,

'This people I have formed for Myself;

They shall declare My praise.'

Isa.43:21

Ah, pray above all else, we are part of This/His people.

May we trust him for strength and wisdom

 to be diligent and true!

2 Cor.4:16-18

Therefore we do not lose heart. 

Though outwardly we are wasting away, 

yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 

17 For our light and momentary troubles 

are achieving for us an eternal glory 

that far outweighs them all.

 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, 

but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, 

but what is unseen is eternal.

Because Time is not on our side

But its kind Giver IS,

Because, though trust is often tried

God keeps his promises

Because His mercy is renewed

In spite of mortal ways

We have, with unplumbed gratitude

Cause to declare His praise

 Because His goodness will not fail

In spite of all that does

Because His justice will prevail

Above all other gods

Because He WAS, IS and WILL BE

No matter what some claim

We, with joyful fidelity

Honor and praise His name

Because we know that we are known

By the fruits that we bear

Because God is not mocked, we groan

But not in vain despair

Because He hears the prayers that lace

Word's inefficiency

  His gentle voice replies, My grace

Is sufficient for thee

Because He rewards those who seek

And serve Him, heart and soul

Because He strengthens us when weak

With faith that makes us whole

Because of this Hope will not dim

 As love trusts and obeys

 Because, He knows who follows Him

By who declares His praise

Janet Martin

Good and Gracious King-City Alight

The Doxology by Anthem Lights and Selah

Perfect Stewardship

The Greatest Command;

 Matt 22:34-40

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.

  35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 

36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart 

and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  c 38This is the first and greatest commandment

. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

  d 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Easier said than done because

human nature is pesky and persistent, but

with God all things are possible! 

No matter what we hold

may we remember we are given, 

not to indulge ourselves, 

but to share...

even toasty marshmallows💗😊

To love God first and neighbour next

Takes care of all the rest

Then we will live, far less perplexed

As we give God our best

If Self is where we ought to be

Life will be a success

Because we hold the joyous key

To finding holiness

‘To love God first and neighbour next’

Though struggles may increase

Transforms a heart, troubled and vexed

With hope, purpose and peace

© Janet Martin

We Are More Than People...

My sister's family went from the house of mourning on Thursday

 to the house of joy on Friday,

My brother-in-law, Father of the bride, 

brother of the man laid to rest the day before

and minister in the Waterloo Markham Mennonite church

opened the wedding service with this verse,

'This is the day the Lord has made.

We will rejoice and be glad in it!'

Psalm 118;24

My niece's wedding yesterday was beautiful.

The bittersweet blend of joy and sorrow

touched the ceremony, rich with profound exhortation from God's Word

reminding us of His order in both marriage and life.

My Uncle, during the ceremony, recounted a day when he went to the clinic

to find out if the cancer-treatments he received helped .

When the Doctor said, 'you are a new man. your cancer is gone!'

his emotional response was 'you have been a vessel in the hands of the Lord. God is good'

Then he went on to say he couldn't help but wonder if his response would have been the

same with a different result. The point he wanted to emphasize is that God is good all the time

in sickness and in health, in joy or grief 

and to remind the young bride and groom (and all of us)

to try to remember this truth, no matter what life brings!

The words 'you have been a vessel in the hands of the Lord' struck a chord!

How often we buzz and bumble through our days

forgetting we are vessels in the hands of the Lord!

When Ananias was called to go and baptize Saul he was confused,

because Saul had persecuted Christians!

 The Lord reminded him in Acts 9:15-16

“Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name 

before Gentiles, kings, and the children[c] of Israel. 

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

Paul, not long after encouraged and exhorted 

believers in the church of Corinth with this reminder;

2 Cor.4:7-11

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, 

to show that the surpassing power 

belongs to God and not to us. 

 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; 

perplexed, but not driven to despair; 

 persecuted, but not forsaken; 

struck down, but not destroyed; 

 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, 

so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 

 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, 

 that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Lots to ponder as we return to what could seem quite commonplace

if we lose sight of who/what we are!

We are more than jars filled with beans and pickles, 

hallelujah! 😊

We are more than people born to life’s demands

We are vessels cradled in God’s faithful hands

Belief and repentance call us to obey

Where more than allegiance fills these jars of clay

An unfailing treasure; God’s surpassing pow’r

Cascades without measure through man’s fading flow’r

Through Soul’s transient trestles, pours faith’s glorious laud

To we, chosen vessels in the hands of God

Then what holy, true love instills commonplace

As we bear the call of sinners saved by grace

Praise the name of Jesus; by his darkest hour

We are vessels filled with God’s surpassing pow’r

Mercy’s priceless measure meets us where we are

To pour His good treasure into faith’s clay jar

© Janet Martin

The Bedrock of Belief, Or Not

I Know Whom I Have Believed 

2 Tim.1:12

For this reason I also suffer these things; 

nevertheless I am not ashamed,

 for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able 

to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Matt.7:21 NIV

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,

but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Heb.3:18-19

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest?

Was it not to those who disobeyed?

19So we see that it was because of their unbelief 

that they were unable to enter.

John 3:18

Whoever believes in Him is not condemned,

but whoever does not believe has already been condemned,

because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: 

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, 

but rather think of yourself with sober judgment,

 in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

Trouble Believing in God- Charles Stanley 

Matt 7:7

Ask and it will be given to you;

seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you.

The bedrock of Belief, or not

Is the chief Cornerstone of thought

Belief is more than a mere nod

To accede existence of God

Where voice of choice cannot long hide

God either adored or denied

The bedrock of belief or not

Is confirmed by response to Ought

Rebellion or obedience

Prove who we serve and reverence

Either the Name above all names

Or Shame’s shameless and brazen claims

The bedrock of belief or not

Is more than a set of truths taught

These truths become love’s vow fulfilled

Proven by where and how we build

With treasure here or gathered up

Where moth and rust cannot corrupt

The bedrock of belief or not

Is either shifting sand or Rock

Graver than anything can be

For it impacts eternity

And is sacred above all else

For soul outlives this Splash of Self

We ought to give most earnest heed

To I AM’s righteousness decreed

Before Reckoning and Reward

When all confess that He is Lord

As we receive what we begot

On Bedrock of Belief, or not

© Janet Martin

Isaiah 28:16

So this is what the Lord GOD says:

 "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, 

a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;

 the one who believes will never be shaken.

Mark 16:16

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;

 but he that believeth not shall be damned.

John 3:36

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:

 and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; 

but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Perfecting Love...

Life/love's blows pay no attention to heart's desire...

Hearts desire, unless guarded with God's Word 

and honed with humility, 

is deceitful and desperately wicked

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,

My lips shall praise You.

Psalm 63:3

The Creator of earth and heavens loves us with

an everlasting love!

Yesterday we attended a beautiful outdoor service,

where nine believers with totally different life/love-stories/testimonies

all with the very same ending;

 faith in Jesus, in God's everlasting love, were baptized!

One young man shared being impacted by

 the story of the dying thief on the cross beside Jesus;

how only faith can save...

The thief had no time left to 'do', only repent and believe.

It's easy to become performance-driven and distracted.

Only by God's grace are we saved and through His grace

we are forgiven and in His grace,

we are able to follow Him and live obedient lives.

Rom.6:1-4

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

 2Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

 3Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized 

into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

 4Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, 

that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,

 even so we also should walk in newness of life.

One young woman testified,

'I put my faith in Him and it changed everything'.

When we trust and believe in Him

it changes our focus and motives!

Hallelujah!

Here is an excerpt from our daughter's testimony...

(one of the nine who were baptized)

We 'oldies' are often extra-refreshed and re-encouraged as we witness

faith's obedience of baptism!

Listening to the testimonies stirred reflection on the

purpose of the body of Christ on earth, the church...

While watching live-stream or 'screen' messages

 is certainly better than nothing, to teach and edify,

it cannot ever be a sufficient substitute for face-to-face fellowship

which produces and strengthens a bond of love and unity.

When each for the other lives

With love, with a lot of prayer

When the attention one gives

Is wholehearted in its care

When we seek God’s kingdom first

Longing for His holiness

When our hunger and our thirst

Is for more of righteousness

When we bind each other’s wounds

With compassion’s healing pow’rs

We will find our spirits tuned

To He whose love perfects ours

© Janet Martin

There Is A Fountain Filled with Blood

There is a fountain filled with blood
  Drawn from Immanuel’s veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
  Lose all their guilty stains:
  Lose all their guilty stains,
  Lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
  Lose all their guilty stains.

2

The dying thief rejoiced to see
  That fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he,
  Wash all my sins away:
  Wash all my sins away,
  Wash all my sins away;
And there may I, though vile as he,
  Wash all my sins away.

3

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood
  Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed ones of God
  Be saved, to sin no more:
  Be saved, to sin no more,
  Be saved, to sin no more;
Till all the ransomed ones of God,
  Be saved to sin no more.

4

E’er since by faith I saw the stream
  Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
  And shall be till I die:
  And shall be till I die,
  And shall be till I die;
Redeeming love has been my theme,
  And shall be till I die.

5

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
  Lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
  I’ll sing Thy power to save:
  I’ll sing Thy power to save,
  I’ll sing Thy power to save;
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
  I’ll sing Thy power to save.

 The Dying Thief- The Spurgeon Library