Hymn for the LORD’s Table Words By Joseph Hart Tune to Crown Him with Many Crowns
1. Glory to God on high! Our peace is made with heav’n; The Son of God came down to die, That sin might be forgiv’n. His precious blood was shed, His body bruised for sin; Remember this in eating bread, And that in drinking wine.
2. Approach His royal board, In His rich garments clad; Join, every tongue, to praise the Lord, And every heart be glad. The Father gives the Son; The Son His flesh and blood; The Spir’t applies, and faith puts on, The righteousness of God.
3. Sinners the gift receive, And each says, “I am chief; Thou know’st, O Lord, I would believe; O help my unbelief!” Lord, help us from above; The pow’r is all Thy own; Faith is Thy gift, and hope, and love, For of ourselves we’ve none.
***** SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: Isaiah 55:1-7 Daily Readings - April 24-30 Sunday - 1 Kings 9-11 Monday - 1 Kings 12-13 Tuesday - 1 Kings 14-15 Wednesday- 1 Kings 16-18 Thursday - 1 Kings 19-20 Friday - 1 Kings 21-22 Saturday - 2 Kings 1-3 ***** “In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.” Jeremiah 50:20 ***** None of God's elect die before they are converted! "These whom He predestined--He also called; and these whom He called--He also justified; and these whom He justified--He also glorified." Romans 8:30 --Ralph Venning, 1675) ***** Christ is . . . "Christ is all." Colossians 3:11 True Christians have trustful thoughts of Christ. They daily lean the weight of their souls upon Him by faith—for pardon and peace. They daily commit the care of their souls to Him—as a man commits a treasure to a safe keeper. They daily cling to Him by faith—as a child in a crowd clings to its mother's hand. They look to Him daily for . . . mercy, grace, comfort, help, strength, guidance. Christ is . . . the rock under their feet, the staff in their hands, their ark and their city of refuge, their sun and their shield, their bread and their medicine, their health and their light, their fountain and their shelter, their portion and their home, their advocate and their physician, their captain and their elder brother, their life, their hope, their all. --Copied *****
"…He Hath Done All Things Well…” Mark 7:37 Yes, from first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin's conviction, to the last thrill of sin's forgiveness, from earth to heaven — this will be our testimony in all the way the Lord our God has led us in the wilderness: "He has done all things well!" In providence and in grace, in every truth of His Word, in every lesson of His love, in every stroke of His rod, in every sunbeam that has shone, in every cloud that has shaded, in every element that has sweetened, in every ingredient that has embittered, in all that has been mysterious, inscrutable, painful, and humiliating, in all that He gave, in all that He took away, this testimony is His just due, and this our grateful acknowledgment through time and through eternity: "He has done all things well!" Has He converted us through grace by a way we had thought the most improbable? Has He torn up all our earthly hopes by the roots? Has He thwarted our schemes, frustrated our plans, disappointed our expectations? Has He taught us in schools most trying, by a discipline most severe, and lessons most humbling to our nature? Has He withered our strength by sickness, reduced us to poverty by loss, crushed our heart by bereavement? And have we been tempted to exclaim, "All these things are against me!" Ah! no! faith will yet obtain the ascendancy, and sweetly sing: "I know in all things that befell, My Jesus has done all things well!" Beloved, it must be so, for Jesus can do nothing wrong! Study the way of His providence and grace with the microscopic eye of faith — view them in every light, examine them in their minutest detail, as you would the petal of a flower, or the wing of an insect; and, oh, what wonders, what beauty, what marvelous adaptation would you observe in all the varied dealings with you, of your glorious Lord! --Octavius Winslow
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