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God Loved the Man He
Made
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God did bestow on man he made
Those faculties which made him blest;
To hear, to see, to smell, to taste,
To feel, and in his image be.
And God did love the man he made,
Pronouncing him as “very good”:
Providing him with garden home;
Surrounding him with fruit and flower.
And when among creation lower
Companion was not found for him,
Then God did make for him a mate,
Which helpmate, woman, named he Eve.
Among the gifts God gave to man
Volition and the choice to will—
To do, where not among the least;
And these God would not violate.
God saw man’s course but would not force
That man should do his will—yet still
Life to be blest must well conform
To moral law; obedient be to God.
So God decreed continued life
Depended on obedience;
Though he foresaw that under stress
The course of man would lead therefrom.
And man would forfeit life God-given
To perish in eternal death.
Yet in his Son our God did know
Was willingness to take the place,
Of sinful man condemned to die,
That man might be restored again,
And so it was because God loved,
So loved he gave his only Son,
That on him those who should believe
In this or in a future time,
Should not forever perished be,
But life might find with lesson learned.
A lesson learned forevermore—
Sin’s undesirability,
The justice and the love of God,
As also that of his dear Son.
—Poems of the Way, p. 84
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The Glory of God
Revealed
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Great God who hast forever
been,
Whom thru thy Word we know
As giver of each perfect gift
To creatures here below.
In wonders of thy Universe
Thy power is not concealed.
For day to day and night to night
Thy glory is revealed.
To prophets and those Saints
of old
Thy might and power were shown.
They bowed in awe before thy face—
In reverence sought thy throne.
Thou art revealed in thy great
plan,
Lost Eden to restore.
When all mankind shall live again
In peace forever more.
For by thy love thou did’st
send forth
Thine only Son to die.
That he might pay the debt of sin
That o’er the world doth lie.
When to the earth thy Kingdom
comes,
Thy glory shall be shown
In love revealed to all the world
Thy name shall then be known.
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Called by a New Name
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Lift up thine eyes dear child
of God,
Lift up thine heart and sing.
Let naught distress thee, for thou art
Espoused unto a King.
In silken threads of
shimmering gold
A pattern thou shalt make
Upon thy royal wedding gown
For thy dear bridegroom’s sake.
His bride must be in queen’s
attire,
And so with patient care,
Ne’er let a single day go by
Without some stitches there.
When finally thou art by his
side,
The world shalt know thy fame.
When Christ presents thee as his bride
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—Poems of the Way, p. 38
God’s Judgment Day
of Blessing
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When the judgments of God are abroad in
the land
Then all of the children of men
Shall learn of his righteousness—know of his love,
And none shall have fear of him then.
For his knowledge shall flow to the ends
of the earth,
As the waters do cover the sea.
Not any shall ask dost thou know of the Lord,
For his Spirit shall over all be.
They will walk up the highway of holiness
then,
With nothing to hurt nor destroy.
For sin shall be vanquished—the evil one bound,
And sorrow shall give way to joy.
The Paradise lost, shall again be
regained,
And all those now dead in their grave
Shall hear the sweet call of their Saviour and Lord
Who died that their lives he might save.
God’s judgment day nears bringing
blessings and peace.
He’s promised all this in his Word.
For Christ and his bride shall then reign o’er the earth
And his name evermore be adored.
And so let us pray from the depths of our
hearts
“May thy Kingdom come”—haste the day
For the judgments of God will bring blessings for all,
With all of earth’s tears wiped away.
—Poems
of the Way, p. 17
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