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Kissed a Guilty World in Love

Katherine Jenkins and the Morriston Tabernacle Chapel congregation in the hymn “Here is Love Vast as the Ocean”.

Lyrice :
Here is love vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten,
Throughout Heav’n’s eternal days.

On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide;
Through the floodgates of God’s mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
Poured incessant from above,
And Heav’n’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.

Let me all Thy love accepting,
Love Thee, ever all my days;
Let me seek Thy kingdom only
And my life be to Thy praise;
Thou alone shalt be my glory,
Nothing in the world I see.
Thou hast cleansed and sanctified me,
Thou Thyself hast set me free.

In Thy truth Thou dost direct me
By Thy Spirit through Thy Word;
And Thy grace my need is meeting,
As I trust in Thee, my Lord.
Of Thy fullness Thou art pouring
Thy great love and power on me,
Without measure, full and boundless,
Drawing out my heart to Thee.

How Strange A Mystery Is Life!

Yes, how strange a mystery is Life!

Yes, when once the eye

has been turned in the right direction,

and the mists and phantoms have disappeared,
we shall see

that life is the theater of action,

and the
prelude to eternity;

an eternity whose untold wonders
are beyond the highest flight of the imagination!

Whitmore Winslow

Those who pray that they may not be led

Those who pray that they may not be led into temptation —must not lead themselves into temptation.

Thomas Watson, The Christian Soldier 1669

Communion with Christ is a Certain Cure For Every Ill

Communion with Christ
is a Certain Cure For Every Ill
Whether it be
the bitterness of woe
or the cloying overabundance of earthly delight,
close fellowship with the Lord Jesus
will take the gall from the one,
and the satiety from the other.

Live near to Jesus, Christian
and it is matter of secondary import
whether you live on the ‘mountain of honor’
or in the ‘valley of humiliation’.

Live near to Jesus
and the glowing coals of the furnace
cannot consume you,
nor the chill blasts
of wintry affliction destroy you.

Living near to Jesus,
you are covered with the wings of God
and underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Spurgeon

Hold Up, Hold On, Hold Out, Hold Fast

Believe firmly,
hope joyfully,
love fervently,
pray earnestly,
walk humbly,
work diligently
and wait quietly.

Hold up,
hold on,
hold out,
hold fast that which you have received.

Still watch,
still pray,
still believe
still fight and run,
that you may obtain.

It is but a little while
and He who comes will come
and will not tarry;
it is but a little while
and your warfare is accomplished
and your iniquities shall be everlastingly separated from you
your sin and sorrows,
tears and fears,
fled and gone—
gone forever
and you meet with an unspeakable reward.

John Mason (1646 – 1694)

Tokyo Brollies

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A True Minister of Christ

Find a man

who has the doctrine of Christ on his lips,

the Spirit of Christ in his heart

and the example of Christ in his life

and you find one of His genuine ministers.

Arthur Pink

A Wise Man’s Rebuke

A gracious soul rejoices, when the sharp lance of the Word
has pierced his abscess of sin!

He wears a reproof like a jewel
on his ear: “Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold
is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.” Proverbs 25:12.

Thomas Watson

The Ministry of Joy

Joyfulness is everywhere commanded as a Christian duty. Discontent is a most detestable fault. Morbidness is a sin. Fretfulness grieves God. It tells of unbelief within the heart. It destroys the soul’s peace. It disfigures the beauty of Christian character. It not only makes us soured and unhappy in our own hearts—but its influence on others is harmful. We have no right to project the gloom of our discontent over any other life. Our ministry is to be ever toward joy. There is nothing so depressing in its effect upon others, as morbidness. Hence, for the sake of those among whom we live, and upon whose lives we are forever unconsciously either casting shadows or pouring sunshine, we should seek to learn this Christian art of contentment.

Affairs of The Eternal State

What a sudden and astonishing transition awaits me from time to eternity, from the material to the spiritual world! Today engaged in the affairs of life, and conversing with my friends, and tomorrow surrounded with millions of spirits, associated with angels, and employed in everlasting concerns! It will, therefore, be my wisdom daily to take farewell of the things of time, and get more and more acquainted with the eternal state.

quote from :

A Secret Survey into the State of the Soul

by James Meikle, 1730-1799