Theology of the Sacraments

 Life is sweet and death is cold

And, though the world is hard to tread,

The morning glow and sunset red

And Earth’s bright treasures manifold

Say, Life is sweet and death is cold.

Love is warm and hate is chill

And, though the world is strange and proud,

Yet like a rainbow shines the cloud

When eyes and lips and laughter still

Say, Love is warm and hate is chill.

 

Life is sweet and love is warm,

And what of all the woes that come

When Winds are loud and birds are dumb?

Forget the woes and, for a charm,

Say, Life is sweet and love is warm.

 

D.M. Baillie, Theology of the Sacraments

 

O Worship the King

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being {Psalm 104:33 NASB}.

O worship the King all-glorious above,
O gratefully sing his power and his love:
our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,
pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.


O tell of his might and 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.


Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines 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 you do we trust, nor find you to fail.
Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end,
our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!

O measureless Might, unchangeable Love,
whom angels delight to worship above!
Your ransomed creation, with glory ablaze,
in true adoration shall sing to your praise!

Author: Robert Grant (1833)

Unfathomable

God’s unfailing Love, who can fathom

This grace so freely given to creatures made of dust

How can I even know or understand how I caught Your gaze?

What could I have possibly done to earn this grace?

Who can know your glory?

I have nothing to offer to answer for such favor, it is unfathomable
For I see myself and repent in sackcloth and ashes
Only this…that worthy is the Lamb of God, hallelujah!
Lord, you are to be exalted for You reign!