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Christ All In All
by David Buttram
"Christ for sickness, Christ for health,
Christ for poverty, Christ for wealth, Christ for joy, Christ for sorrow
Christ
today, and Christ tomorrow, Christ my life, Christ my light,
Christ for morning, noon, and night, Christ when all around gives way,
Christ my everlasting stay, Christ my rest and Christ my food,
Christ
above my highest good, Christ
my well beloved, my friend,
Christ my pleasure, without end, Christ my Saviour, Christ my Lord,
Christ my portion, Christ my God, Christ my good shepherd, I His sheep,
Christ
Himself my soul doth keep, Christ my leader, Christ my peace,
Christ hath given my soul release, Christ my righteousness divine,
Christ for me, for He is mine! Christ my wisdom, Christ my meat,
Christ
restores my wandering feet, Christ my advocate and priest,
Christ who ne'er forgets the least, Christ my teacher, Christ my guide,
Christ my rock, in Christ I hide, Christ the everlasting bread,
Christ His
precious blood has shed, Christ
has brought me nigh to God,
Christ the everlasting Word, Christ my master, Christ my head,
Christ who for my sins hath bled, Christ my glory, Christ my crown,
Christ
the plant of great renown, Christ my comforter on high,
Christ my hope is ever nigh, Christ is coming in the air,
Christ - Come quickly is my prayer!"
WHAT PRICE FOOLISHNESS?
author
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What some will pay for a moment's reckless folly is
recorded again and again in the Book of Ages. Do you think these got their "money's worth?"
Adam and Eve, for one bit of lucious fruit when they were not even hungry, brought
sin, suffering, shame and death upon themselves and the human race. (Genesis 3)
Lot's
wife, revealing her longing for the things that pertain to the earth, took one look back at Sodom and became
a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19)
Esau, to satisfy one day's fleshly
hunger, lightly esteemed his birthright and forfeited his right to the ancestry of Christ. (Genesis 25)
Achan,
for a garment he could not wear, and silver and gold he could not spend, paid with all his possessions, his family and his
life. (Joshua 7)
Sampson, for the caress of a hypocritical woman,
lost his will, his strength, his liberty, his eyes and finally his life. (Judges 16)
David,
to enjoy another man's wife, hands to posterity a tale of his life with adultery, shame, and tears, boldly written for
all to read. (2 Samuel 11)
Ahab, coveted another's little vineyard,
permitted his wife to have its owner killed, claimed it for his own, and heard his funeral preached in these words: "in
the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine." (1 Kings 21)
Judas for thirty pieces of silver, which he couldn't find occasion or
conscience to use, took his own life in shame and despair. (Matthew 27)
These examples could be multiplied but
they are sufficient just here. could these have called back their days after learning their lessons, how differently would
have been the history of the world. When we consider the price paid for sin, we must conclude it is not worth it! Surely we
do not suppose ourselves smart enough to out-smart God, and get by with sinning an not pay the "wages" of it.
Love
is much too pure and holy,
Friendship is too sacred far,
For a moment's reckless folly
Thus to desolate
and mar.
The wise woman builds her house
But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.
Proverbs 14:1
If you have been foolish in
exalting
yourself,
Or if you have devised evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
Prov 30:32
THE FOOL'S
PRAYER
Edward Rowland Sill
The
royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"
The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court
before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.
He bowed his head, and bent
his knee
Upon the monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a
fool!
"No pity, Lord, could change the heart
From red with wrong to white as wool;
The rod must
heal the sin; but, Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!
" 'Tis not by guilt, the onward sweep
Of
truth and right, O Lord, we stay;
'Tis by our follies that so long
We hold the earth from heaven away.
"These clumsy feet, still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end;
These hard, well-meaning hands we
thrust
Among the heart-strings of a friend.
"The ill-timed truth we might have kept--
Who knows
how sharp it pierced and stung!
The words we had not sense to say--
Who knows how grandly it had rung!
"Our faults no tenderness should ask,
The chastening strips must cleanse them all;
But for our blunders--oh,
in shame
Before the eyes of heaven we fall.
"Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;
Men crown, the
knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will; but Thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"
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