Journal for Christ: Give me Jesus? I love to tell the story?

December 10, 2015

Worship: Give Me Jesus as sung by Fernando Ortega; I Love to Tell the Story by A Katherine Hankey

In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus, give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

And when I am alone
Oh and when I am alone
And when I am alone
Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus, give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

And when I come to die
Oh and when I come to die
And when I come to die
Give me Jesus

Give me Jesus, give me Jesus
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

Songwriters
MOSES HOGAN

Published by
Lyrics © HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

Video: https://youtu.be/vu2E2FUcIiE

I Love To Tell The Story

Words: A. Katherine Hankey

Music: "Hankey" by William G. Fischer

Ps 66:16; Acts 8:4

I love to tell the story of unseen things above,

Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story, because I know ’tis true;

It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.

Refrain

I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory,

To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems

Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams.

I love to tell the story, it did so much for me;

And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.

Refrain

I love to tell the story; ’tis pleasant to repeat

What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet.

I love to tell the story, for some have never heard

The message of salvation from God’s own holy Word.

Refrain

I love to tell the story, for those who know it best

Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.

And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,

’Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.

Refrain

Video: https://youtu.be/vDk5ket4xpI

Witness:

My hearts cry “Give me Jesus”. Nothing else of this world really matters. Whether I live in a mansion or a motel. Drive a luxury car or a lemon. Dine sumptuously or in simplicity. Nothing really matters only Jesus. As I write Fernando Ortega is singing:

When I survey the wondrous cross

On which the Prince of glory died,

My richest gain I count but loss,

And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

Save in the death of Christ my God!

All the vain things that charm me most,

I sacrifice them to His blood.

One wonders what life would look like if we really, really practiced this. If we truly believed this confession and desire. The same goes for “I Love to Tell the Story”. When was the last time I told the story to someone? I will not go as far as someone who blogged on the internet that there were some praise & worship songs we shouldn’t sing because we are not living up to what the songs are saying. Yet, perhaps we should pause for a second sometimes and examine our lives. The song then may become a prayer instead of a profession and the chorus a confession.

WORD:

Ps 24:1-2

24 The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it;

2 for he founded it upon the seas

and established it upon the waters.

NIV

Ps 24:1-2

24 The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

KJV

Time has run out. I will share a thought gleaned from Spurgeon’s Treasury of David.

Psalms 24:1

Ver. 1. The earth is the Lord's, that is, Christ's, who is the "Lord of lords" (Rev 19:16); for the whole world and all the things therein are his by a twofold title.

First, by donation of God his Father, having "all power given unto him in heaven and in earth" (Matt 28:18), even whatsoever things the Father hath are his (John 16:15); and so consequently "made heir of all things." Heb 1:2.

Secondly, the earth is Christ's and all that therein is, by right of creation, for "he founded it", saith our prophet, and that after a wonderful manner, "upon the seas and floods."... All things then are Christ's, in respect of creation, by whom "all things were made" (John 1:3); in respect of sustentation, as upholding all things by his mighty word (Heb 1:3); in respect of administration, as reaching from one end to another, and ordering all things sweetly (Wisdom 8:1): in one word — "Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things." Rom 11:36. From hence we may learn

(1.) That Christ is "the King of glory", "Lord of Hosts," even Almighty God. For he that made all, is "Lord over all;" he that is the Creator of heaven and earth is Almighty (saith our Creed); able to do whatsoever he will, and more than he will too — more by his absolute power, than he will by his actual — "able to raise up children unto Abraham" out of the very stones of the street, though he doth not actually produce such a generation. His almightiness evidently proves him to be God, and his founding of the world his almightiness; for "The gods that have not made the heaven and earth shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens." Jer 10:11.

(2.) Seeing the compass of the world and all they that dwell therein are the Lord's, it is plain that the church is not confined within the limits of one region, or glued, as it were, to one seat only. The Donatists in old time, would tie the church only to Cartenna in Africa, the Papists in our time to Rome in Italy; but the Scriptures plainly affirm that the golden candlesticks are removed from one place to another, and that the kingdom of God is taken away from one nation and given unto another country that brings forth the fruit thereof; in every region he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. Acts 10:35. — John Boys.

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