THE GIFT OF GIFTS

THE GIFT OF GIFTS

"O Source of all good,
What shall I render to You for the gift of gifts,
Your own dear Son, begotten, not created,
My Redeemer, proxy, surety, substitute,
His self-emptying incomprehensible,
His infinity of love beyond the heart's grasp.
Herein is the wonder of wonders:
He came below to raise me above,
Was born like me that I might become like Him.
Herein is love;
When I cannot rise to him he draws near on wings of grace
To raise me to himself.
Here is power;
When Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
He united them in indissoluble unity,
The uncreated and the created.
Herein is wisdom;
When I was undone, with no will to return to him
And no intellect to devise recovery,
He came, God-incarnate, to save me to the uttermost,
As man to die my death, to shed satisfying blood on my behalf,
To work out a perfect righteousness for me.
O God, take me in spirit to the watchful shepherds,
And enlarge my mind;
Let me hear good tidings of great joy,
And hearing, believe, rejoice, praise, adore,
My conscience bathed in an ocean of repose,
My eyes uplifted to a reconciled Father;
Place me with ox, ass, camel, goat,
To look with them upon my Redeemer's face,
And in him account myself delivered from sin;
Let me with Simeon clasp the new-born child to my heart,
Embrace him with undying faith,
Exulting that he is mine and I am his.
In him thou hast given me so much that heaven can give no more.

From the VALLEY OF VISION - PRAYERS OF THE PURITANS

Good thoughts this the day after Christmas.

JOIN US FOR OUR NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND CELEBRATION with Robby Richardson.
Great dinner concert on Saturday evening, December 30th with Bert
Kettinger - Moody Broadcasting Network. Call today for reservations or
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Great quote: All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made
extraordinary by the purpose he has given them. Oswald Chambers