(C) Cheryl Howard 2008

There is none that can match incomparable SAVIOR

HE who woos wretched sinners in the warmth of HIS favour

HE would shield us in arms that ache for our love

Yearns to keep us closer to HIS heart than a hand in a glove

 

Strong in HIS breast beats the most patient of Souls

Motivated by love HE endured hell to make us whole

Tis our hearts, is HIS treasure, HE so longs to see free

There is naught that HE desires besides you and me

 

Our frailty and weakness stirs HIS tender pity

HE fights, us to rescue, with power, strong and gritty

HE enters the cesspool we’ve made of our life

Plucks us from the quagmire, like a fallen, cherished wife

 

HE will not rest till HE’s made us pure and clean

That reflected in our lives HIS glory will be seen

HIS goodness and kindness are steadfast, true, unfailing

HE is tireless, longsuffering, to save sinners, against HIM railing

 

Why do we resist the ONE who loves us best?

Why do we refuse HIS offer of giving our hearts rest?

We are truly lost without HIM, like drawing breath when there’s no air

We are stumbling round in darkness, cut off from Light and care

 

We’ve been deceived by a lie so ancient, saying we can be as GOD

And we’ve rejected our own CREATOR, as on HIS love we have trod

We’ve listened to a liar, practised eons in his craft

Who desires our destruction, and at our demise, he laughs

 

It is GOD who created each one of us, loves us with a love unending

If we will only pause awhile, we’ll hear HIS heart in HIS SON HE was sending

While there is life upon this earth HE reaches out in mercy

To lift us from the death we drown in, set us beside HIM for eternity!

 

 

 

thought for the journey…

This earth is like a septic tank full of effluence, and The SON of GOD put on HIS boots, came down and stepped in. And HE has not stopped reaching into the foul and filthy pit of humanity - to pluck out and rescue one broken, shattered, sin polluted life after another! Some lives merely cracked, others broken into unrecognizable pieces - all immersed in the filth of rebellion and pride. HIS goal - to lovingly heal, restore, cleanse and make us whole, to, in a word ‘redeem’ us! Now that is true love!

 

John 3:16 “For GOD soooo loved the world that HE gave HIS Only Begotten SON, that whoever believes in HIM should not perish but have everlasting life!”

Romans 3:23 “for ALL have sinned & fall short of the glory of GOD,”

 

There is room for all humanity in the arms, the embrace, the ‘hug’ of GOD - wrapped in HIS love, encased in HIS Presence, sheltered next to HIS heart. In the Secret Place of The Most HIGH, beneath HIS wings - safe, warm & secure!

 

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.”