Dying & Undying Love

Ready to stay and serve,

Ready to travel and tell,

Willing to cramp the curve,

Willing to spoil the spell…

Offering deeps to droves,

Offering blood to bound,

Giving my pulse to prove,

Giving my sense to sound…

Touching a whore with hope,

Touching a crook with care,

Helping the crying cope,

Seeking the sick to spare…

Shedding my wares to Want,

Bleeding my time to Tried,

Sparing my strength to Can’t,

Sharing his grace to guide…

Speaking soft to sinner,

Singing sinew for saint,

Whispering wait to wandering,

Blowing a force for faint…

Promising rest to rebels,

Promising fire to frauds,

Risking a stone for stumbles,

Betting a game for gods…

Carrying wood for Weary,

Donating gold for dross,

Peering through beacons bleary,

Crowned on a bleeding cross…

Willing to waste and wait,

Willing to love and lose,

Ready to rise and renovate,

Charity’s charge to choose!

MNA

1/5/2019

Run, Rejoice, Rest

O run away! Escape Destruction City.
Proud Babylon has held thee far too long,
Imprisoned by her pleasures cheap and pretty,
And lulled in senseless slumber by her song.
Succumb not to her wisdom vain and witty:
Flee now to Christ and leave her hellish throng.

Rejoice in Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior
Who, sinless, died for sinners on the tree;
For never did His virtue wane or waver,
But, raised up, Jesus silenced death’s decree!
Today, on high, He guides our gospel labor,
From Satan’s kingdom setting spirits free!

O rest and worship in His holy presence
‘Til Jesus comes all nations to depose.
This age shall pass, of faith and of repentance,
And Christ return to vanquish all our foes.
He calls all men to hush and give attendance--
O heed His word! This day of Grace shall close!


MNA
3.8.16