Turn...

This hymn more or less sums up my experience since school started. Everything -- school, friends, family, personal -- has been a whirlwind. I don't know what to think or what to base my hopes on. I wonder sometimes if my whole world as I know it has vanished. It is definitely overwhelming at points.

BUT there's salvation by turning to Him. Hidden in Him, I can soar over all my situations. I know He loves me and is taking care of me.

O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

Through death into life everlasting
He passed, and we follow Him there;
O’er us sin no more hath dominion—
For more than conquerors we are!

His Word shall not fail you—He promised;
Believe Him, and all will be well:
Then go to a world that is dying,
His perfect salvation to tell!

Thank You, Lord.

Mercy all

I was really touched with this hymn this week. I realized that my very existence and who and where I am is all a mercy of Him. Praise Him!

'Tis mercy all, immense and free;
For, O my God, it found out me.

His Body...

I have been really impressed recently with the matter of the Lord's prayer in John 17. My vision has really been uplifted! In John 17, the Lord prayed that He would be glorified. We really are living in the fulfillment of the Lord's prayer. He is glorified when the Triune God is manifested in the believers.

The hymn for this week is really touching:

O Lord Jesus, Thy redeemed ones
Are Thy Body and Thy Bride;
As Thy fullness, Thine expression,
In her Thou are glorified.
Thou, her all in all forever,
She Thy riches doth declare;
Thou dost fully saturate her
And Thy glory with her share.

Lo, the holy city,
Full of God's bright glory!
It is God's complete expression
In humanity.

Lord, continue Your transforming work in me. Build me into Your Body. May You be glorified.

Grace of life

This phrase has been echoing in my head:

Grace of life, how all-sufficient,
Is my portion day by day
(Hymn 152)

It reminds me of 1 Peter 2:7 --

Husbands, in like manner, dwell together with them according to knowledge, as with the weaker, female vessel, assigning honor to them as also to fellow heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

How sweet to be fellow heirs of the grace of life!