Judge, Lawgiver, King

 

“The LORD is our Judge” and He’s always right

“The LORD is our Lawgiver;” laws of comfort, not fright

“The LORD is our King” – He is absolute King

Absolute joyfulness His decisions soon bring

“He will save us,” guiding from darkness into light.

– eab, 2/7/09          (quotations mark = exact words of Isa 33.22)

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Judge, Lawgiver, King

Isaiah * tells us God is Judge, Lawgiver, and King.

America, it seems, tried to produce the same thing,

But since merely men and not the great God,

“Judicial, Legislative, Executive” got the nod,

None of whom are trusted the whole power to swing.

                   – eab, 2/7/09        (*Isa 33.22)

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John Burton, Sr. – death, Jun 24, 1822

“Holy Bible, Book Divine”

Holy Bible, book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine;
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine to teach me what I am.

 

Mine to chide me when I rove;
Mine to shew a Saviour’s love;
Mine art thou to guide my feet;
Mine to judge, condemn, acquit.

 

Mine to comfort in distress;
If the Holy Spirit bless;
Mine to shew, by living faith,
Man can triumph over death.

 

Mine to tell of joys to come,
And the rebel sinner’s doom;
Holy Bible, book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine.

 

John Burton, Sr. died this date 6/24/1822, at Leicester, England.  He was a Baptist who wrote a number of hymns and helped compile the Nottingham Sunday School Union Hymn Book a hymnal that saw twenty editions in the next fifty years.  John was born 2/26/1773, at Nottingham, England.

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