Author Unknown Our highest joys succeed our griefs,And peace is born of pain;Smiles follow bitter blinding tears,As sunshine follows rain. We gain our rest through weariness,From bitter draw the sweet:Strength comes from weakness, hope from…
William Cowper What various hindrances we meetIn coming to the mercy seat!Yet who that knows the worth of prayerBut wishes to be often there! Prayer makes the darkened clouds withdraw;Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw;Gives…
There’s a way back to God from the dark path of sin;There’s a door that is open and you may go in:At Calvary’s cross is where you begin,When you come as a sinner to Jesus.…
There was no other good enoughTo pay the price of sin.He only could unlock the gateOf heav’n, and let us in. from There is a Green Hill Far Away (1848) by Cecil Frances Alexander
by Hymns of Grace, 2021 His robes for mine, O wonderful exchangeClothed in my sin, Christ suffered ‘neath God’s rageDraped in His righteousness, I’m justifiedIn Christ I live, for in my place He died (Chorus)I…
O safe and happy shelter! O refuge tried and sweet!O trysting place where heaven’s love And heaven’s justice meet! Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, “Beneath the Cross of Jesus” (1868).
How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure,That he should give his only Son To make a wretch his treasure.How [deep] the pain of searing loss— The Father turns his face…