Song Lyrics for Worship

 Just a quick song to think about.  O Worship The King by Robert Grant

O worship the King, all glorious above, and gratefully sing His wonderful love; our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.

O tell of His might, O sing of His grace, whose Robe is the light, whose canopy space!  his chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?  It breathes in the air, it sines in the light, It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, in Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail, Thy mercies how tender, how firm to teh end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

The Mercies of God

 Paul writes in Romans 12:1, "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God. . .".  I wonder sometimes if we take enough time to ponder the mercy of God.  I think that far too often I find myself thinking that I somehow deserve goodness from God, or that I, based on how good or bad I do, have earned favor with God.  Biblically we know this is not true, and yet we do not operate or truly believe that it is.  It is hard enough for us to understand grace - the unmerited favor of God, but I think sometimes we focus on grace at the expense of mercy.  If God were to truly give us what we deserve, we would be dead.  We would have nothing but our own selfish pride.  And we would be lost without hope.  And yet God showed mercy to us.  He did not give us that which we deserved.  He instead gave that which we deserved to another by his mercy and then applied the righteousness He had earned to our accounts by grace. What a glorious God.  

Every morning his mercies are new.  This means that every day I don't deserve to live but instead deserve to receive the full brunt of the wrath of God.  And yet because He poured that wrath out on Jesus I live and breath and rejoice in the goodness and mercy of God.