Are you good enough to go above?
So lacking in hate? So full of love?
Christ only is adequate to save,
To keep us from the eternal grave.
Accept Father, Son, and Holy Dove.
– eab, 4/15/11
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Good Enough?
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William Cowper – penned this date, Dec 6, 1769
Posted in poem, today in history, worship, tagged ", "Amazing Grace", "God Moves in Mysterious Ways", "O For a Closer Walk with God", "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood", aching void, back-fence neighbor, dearest idol, Holy Dove, I hate the sins, Jesus and His Word, John Newton, peaceful hours, return, the Lord, the world, today in history, wrote today on December 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
“O For a Closer Walk with God” (stanza 2-5)
Where is the blessedness I knew,
When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul refreshing view
Of Jesus and His Word?
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn
And drove Thee from my breast.
The dearest idol I have known,
Whate’er that idol be
Help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee.
William Cowper on this very date wrote this hymn. He was a back-fence neighbor to John Newton (“Amazing Grace”). Cowper also penned “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood” “God Moves in Mysterious Ways” and sixty-some more hymns.
