March 24, 2012
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Lenten Reflections: Come now, consider – Consider His ways!
Come now, consider – Consider His ways!
Come now, consider – Consider His grace!
Freely rendered Himself a sacrifice
For all our sin, spotless Lamb paid the priceFor all us rebels, first the Jew, then the Gentile
He was crucified at the Place of a SkullJesus, God's ransom, bought our release
There Immanuel hung, between two thievesBecame a curse, died upon the tree
It pleased the LORD to put Him to griefWounded, bruised, and chastised for our peace
Through the cross our souls He did redeemGod's just wrath our Savior fully absorbed
Glory's grace from Calvary richly pouredSovereign mercy spanned the great gulf fixed
From the burning, we were called and plucked"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God?To show His power in us, God's glorious display:
Vessels of mercy for the renown of His great nameBorn of God – not of blood, nor of the will of flesh or man
Not of works, that God's purpose of election might standEnmity ceased, the end of all strife
No longer dead, but quickened to lifeHis sheep once scattered among the nations
Now gathered and seated in heav'nly placesOur iniquities purged, we sup with Him above!
Yet how scant our devotion! How puny my love!Reconciled through His precious blood
How dare we sin against matchless Love?O! Consider Him! Consider His ways!
O! Consider Him! Consider His grace!Can we claim to know Christ's all-surpassing worth
If our affections remain fixed on this earth?Come now, consider – Consider His grace!
Come now, consider – Consider your ways!Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
(Haggai 1:7)
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
(Amos 4:11)Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth...
Related posts:- My other Lenten Reflections
- My posts on Lent & the Resurrection
- True Calvinism is NOT . . .
- Bible Reading: Things To Look for in a Church: What We Find in Solomon's Temple, #2: God's Sovereignty in Salvation
- no glory to me, o my Savior ~ only because You chose to favor | a spiritual birthday celebration
- All of Your grace, All to Your glory (this day in 1982)
- "Salvation unto Us Has Come by God's free grace & favor"
- I am a leopard - Christ is a lion ~ The Resurrection Celebration
- we did not choose, He chose us, worthy the Lamb, solus Christus
- Wake up and tremble, rightly ascribe
- All ye who hear ... Lazarus, come forth! Lazarus, take heed!
- The Gospel: Penal substitution? Really? Yes, really!
- A little child shall lead us: Christ died for our sins (precious penal substitution)
- the priest shall make atonement
- the only true way of peace (Postcards from God in England)
- Letter 7 on assurance and fighting for joy (remember His love for us while we were sinners)
- Advent #2 WHY HAS JESUS COME? to give his life as a ransom for many
- Advent # 5 WHY HAS JESUS COME? So we might draw near to God | Even a Vapor
- Advent # 7 WHY HAS JESUS COME? So we might be satisfied with Him
- Linger, linger, linger – so you might know God's love
- Lenten Reflections: "all that is talked about the sufferings of Jesus" (Joseph Hart)
Scripture quotations taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
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Comments (2)
First Karen, Congratulations. I did not have to get up early tomorrow morning to read this. (not sarcastic)
Christ is everything in the Christian life. The smartest thing a human can do is to Consider Him. It is hard to grasp that HE holds the entire universe together by His power. Why do I worry.
Of course, that Colossians verse has a zinger--I have to shape up and fly right. One day this potential corpse of mine will finally shut up. In the mean time, I slug it out. I am glad that the Holy Spirit is the Referee.
frank
@ANVRSADDAY - lol - Well, I'm thankful you were saved some extra beauty sleep.
"The smartest thing a human can do is to Consider Him." – Yes! But how much of our time is spent considering any and everything else! It's much too easy for us to take our salvation for granted, and/or to attribute it to ourselves in some way, rather than seeing that all we have comes from God and it is all to God's glory alone.
I Cor. 4:7b What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Eph. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.