Salvation: The Height of the LORD's Goodness

  

Am I called? How can it be?

Has my Savior chosen me?

Guilty, wretched as I am,

Has He named my worthless name?

Vilest of the vile am I,

Dare I raise my hopes so high?

 

Am I called? What shall I bring?

 As an offering to my King?

Poor and blind, and naked I,

Trembling at Thy footstool lie;

Nought but sin I call my own,

 Nor for sin, can I atone.

 

Am I called? An heir of God?

 Washed, redeemed by precious blood;

Father take me by Thy hand;

Guide me to that better land,

 Where my soul shall be at rest,

Pillowed on my Savior’s breast.

 

-Tune to “Rock of Ages” 7s Words by J. L. Gray, 1843 A.D.

 

 

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SALVATION: THE HEIGHT OF 

THE LORD’S GOODNESS

 

 

     We live in the midst of the wonderful works of the Lord (Psalm 40:5). There is not a living thing that exists but what our Lord does not give life, maintain that life and at His pleasure, take that life away. Behold the glories of our Lord in His providence, directing all things to the end He ordained from old eternity. See the sun, moon and stars as they obediently and faithfully overlook the earth, warming, illuminating, dutifully performing the will of the Lord. 

 

All nature bears the imprint of our glorious and infinite Lord, yet man is so insensible toward God that we scarcely pay attention to the multiplied tokens of His greatness and goodness. Would you see the effect of Adam’s fall upon us? Most people give very little, if any, thought to the Lord of creation Who is the Fount of goodness and the Source of every mercy and good gift (James 1:16). Though we give little to no attention to His generosity, yet the Lord provides us with life and breath. He sends His sunshine and rain upon the just and the unjust though few take note of His generosity. We have all been rebellious, ungrateful and negligent of worshiping the Lord, yet, for the glory of His grace, before the world was made He chose a people unto salvation and appointed a Savior for that great multitude. 

 

When the Lord works within us by His Spirit, using His Word, we see that spiritual mercies rise to a much greater height than physical mercies. God devised eternal salvation for His chosen ones by the doing, dying and rising again of Christ. By the Son of God, His people have been saved forever through the Savior’s work of redemption. Sins that had to be punished, were punished in the Christ of the cross. “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin” (see I John 1:7). 

 

By the revelation of the Spirit, we observe the fulness of the goodness of the Lord in that God gave His only begotten Son to rescue us and bring us back to Himself.

 

 

-preacher Jim Byrd

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