October 23, 2016
Worship: Let us Love and Sing and Wonder
TEXT:
MUSIC:
1. Let us love and sing and wonder
Let us praise the Saviour’s name
He has hushed the law’s loud thunder
He has quenched Mount Sinai’s flame
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has brought us nigh to God
Let us praise the Saviour’s name
He has hushed the law’s loud thunder
He has quenched Mount Sinai’s flame
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has brought us nigh to God
2. Let us love the Lord Who bought us
Pitied us when enemies
Called us by His grace and taught us
Gave us ears and gave us eyes
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He presents our souls to God
Pitied us when enemies
Called us by His grace and taught us
Gave us ears and gave us eyes
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He has washed us with His blood
He presents our souls to God
3. Let us sing though fierce temptation
Threatens hard to bear us down
For the Lord, our strong salvation,
Holds in view the conqueror’s crown
He, Who washed us with His blood,
He, Who washed us with His blood,
He, Who washed us with His blood,
Soon will bring us home to God
Threatens hard to bear us down
For the Lord, our strong salvation,
Holds in view the conqueror’s crown
He, Who washed us with His blood,
He, Who washed us with His blood,
He, Who washed us with His blood,
Soon will bring us home to God
4. Let us wonder grace and justice
Join and point to mercy’s store
When through grace in Christ our trust is
Justice smiles and asks no more
He Who washed us with His blood
He Who washed us with His blood
He Who washed us with His blood
Has secured our way to God
Join and point to mercy’s store
When through grace in Christ our trust is
Justice smiles and asks no more
He Who washed us with His blood
He Who washed us with His blood
He Who washed us with His blood
Has secured our way to God
5. Let us praise and join the chorus
Of the saints enthroned on high
Here they trusted Him before us
Now their praises fill the sky
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou art worthy Lamb of God
Of the saints enthroned on high
Here they trusted Him before us
Now their praises fill the sky
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou hast washed us with Thy blood
Thou art worthy Lamb of God
6. Yes, we praise Thee, gracious Saviour
Wonder, love, and bless Thy Name.
Pardon, Lord our poor endeavor
Pity for Thou knowest our frame
Wash our souls and songs with blood
Wash our souls and songs with blood
Wash our souls and songs with blood
For by Thee, we come to God
Wonder, love, and bless Thy Name.
Pardon, Lord our poor endeavor
Pity for Thou knowest our frame
Wash our souls and songs with blood
Wash our souls and songs with blood
Wash our souls and songs with blood
For by Thee, we come to God
©2001 Laura Taylor Music.
Video: https://youtu.be/Uw89qxcfDV8
Witness:
It again appears that life has interfered with my journaling. However, it has not kept me from reading devotional thoughts by others or listening to sermons by John Piper or Allister Begg. Nor has it kept me from prayer and writing a poem which I will share at the end of this journal entry. No, life may bring disruptions to our holy habits and endeavors. The key is not to beat ourselves up about it or listen to the lies our enemy throws at us.
You’re a failure...
Give it up…
You’re such a looser…
You just aren’t disciplined enough!
Keep plugged in somehow. Pray and worship spontaneously as the Spirit leads you. Read short devotionals. Listen to sermons in the car or when you are going to bed. Jump back into your quiet time as soon as the opportunity presents itself, don’t put it off. When you put it off your passion fires will wane, and your holy habit will soon be broken. Those who have tasted of the goodness of the Lord and His excellencies by engaging in the holy habit of the study of His Word and the exercise of their mind and spirit in meditation upon what He reveals will find it difficult to stay away. There will be a nagging yearning in their heart to return to the refreshing fount of blessings found in His Word. A holy ache to be in His presence through worship in song, prayer, and the Word.
WORD:
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Ps 25:11
For the sake of your name, O Lord,
forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
NIV
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Ps 25:8
For the honor of your name, O Lord,
forgive my many, many sins.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Ps 25:11
For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
KJV
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Ps 25:11
11 For your name's sake, O Lord,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
ESV
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Many commentators see this as a break in David’s meditation on his petitions found in verses 1-7. If so, it is a very brief, very natural, and almost unconscious one as he reflects on the goodness and faithfulness of God. The object of David’s meditation is still God and not himself. The subject of his meditation is not his forgiveness but God’s reputation. In other words, David is more concerned with glorifying and magnifying God. And because he is concerned, he knows his sin does not magnify the Lord, but that in forgiving his sins God will be greatly glorified.
How? You may ask. For the same reasons, I gave back in verse 7 where David asks to be remembered by God for the sake of His goodness (see the entry on June 23, 2016). Also for the reasons I gave on October 11, 2015, when commenting on a similar phrase found in Psalm 23:3 “Your name's sake”). I refer anyone reading this back to these two entries. I will quote Barnes to summarize the thought here.
The idea here is that God would do this on His own account, or for the honor of His own name. This is A reason, and one of the main reasons, why God ever pardons iniquity. It is that the honor of His name may be promoted; that His glorious character may be displayed; that he may SHOW himself to the universe to be merciful and gracious. There are, doubtless, other reasons why He pardons sin-reasons drawn from the bearing which the act of mercy will have on the welfare of the universe; but still the main reason is, that His own honor will thus be promoted, and His true character thus made known.
(from Barnes' Notes, Electronic Database Copyright © 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Let me add that finding forgiveness, and peace with the God of the universe also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction in the heart of the repentant sinner… a joy that may fluctuate in this life but will last forever in the eternal.
O, LORD…
For Thy name’s sake
And not mine
Forgive my iniquity
For this, I pine
That in doing this
You receive the glory
And I can share
The wondrous story
Of thy steadfast love
And gracious heart
Which leads me to sing
How great Thou art
With tears that flow
Like a flood
Because of Thy
Redeeming blood
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