10 March 2010 at 23:22
How shall I speak of Your Faithfulness, O LORD???
It isn't in words alone; or even the experiences of life;
It transcends both!!!!!!
You are the hand that steadies me when I buckle;
The drug that courses through my blood to heal my sickness;
The one clear thought that jolts my delirious mind out of its deadly stupor;
The nudge that puts the bone back in the socket;
The love that seeks me while I wallow sickly in the gutter;
The ever-dawning day that always ends my night.
In death Your face will I see.
How shall this faithless derelict speak of Your eternal faithfulness???
Forever and forever, O Lord....
Forever!!!!
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I thank Mr. Thomas Paul for teaching me this song in 2005.
It worked its way slowly into me; in the beginning, it was just one of those new-fangled songs I laboured to learn. I always regard new songs with disdain.
Brian Doerksen wasn't even someone I'd heard about; I knew "Come, Now is the Time", but I didn't know he'd written it. Later on I would learn that he wrote all these songs, including "Refiner's Fire".
As the years rolled by, the sense of God being the ONLY unchanging one in a universe of kaleidoscopic change gripped my heart. God's faithfulness....takes time and experience to take root in our hearts. Just like, if something has to be immovable for eternity, it needs good strong foundations that will stand any gale force. This song has never ever stopped speaking God's constancy, His immovableness, His permanence, His bulwark...to my battered heart. I do think, many times, of William Cowper; but when I listen to "Faithful One", I wonder how Cowper could ever have been.
It amazes me and grips me that this is basically a song of relationship - of deep, deep relationship where the trust is so amazingly solid that the results are indelible, everlasting, calming peace, and more and more trust!!!! Trust breeds yet more trust, it seems. The relationship breeds love too.....a love that is so tough and yet so tender, so unfailing, so inexhaustible......
The line that just says it all is "All through the storm, Your love is the anchor, my hope is in You alone". I really don't know how many times I have crumpled into hopelessness and collapsed in a corner, completely undone and shattered; God has always picked me up, many, many times - through this song that Brian Doerksen wrote. I stand today as living proof, and I don't mind if I say this as proudly as I can.
"Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf."
- Hebrews 6:17-20
It is always our souls that need the anchor. How I love that word "anchor"..... I don't know where you stand today, but in the storm, in the tempest, drop anchor.....in our God. Let Him be the anchor that holds you.
How shall I speak of Your Faithfulness, O LORD???
It isn't in words alone; or even the experiences of life;
It transcends both!!!!!!
You are the hand that steadies me when I buckle;
The drug that courses through my blood to heal my sickness;
The one clear thought that jolts my delirious mind out of its deadly stupor;
The nudge that puts the bone back in the socket;
The love that seeks me while I wallow sickly in the gutter;
The ever-dawning day that always ends my night.
In death Your face will I see.
How shall this faithless derelict speak of Your eternal faithfulness???
Forever and forever, O Lord....
Forever!!!!
**********************************************************************
I thank Mr. Thomas Paul for teaching me this song in 2005.
It worked its way slowly into me; in the beginning, it was just one of those new-fangled songs I laboured to learn. I always regard new songs with disdain.
Brian Doerksen wasn't even someone I'd heard about; I knew "Come, Now is the Time", but I didn't know he'd written it. Later on I would learn that he wrote all these songs, including "Refiner's Fire".
As the years rolled by, the sense of God being the ONLY unchanging one in a universe of kaleidoscopic change gripped my heart. God's faithfulness....takes time and experience to take root in our hearts. Just like, if something has to be immovable for eternity, it needs good strong foundations that will stand any gale force. This song has never ever stopped speaking God's constancy, His immovableness, His permanence, His bulwark...to my battered heart. I do think, many times, of William Cowper; but when I listen to "Faithful One", I wonder how Cowper could ever have been.
It amazes me and grips me that this is basically a song of relationship - of deep, deep relationship where the trust is so amazingly solid that the results are indelible, everlasting, calming peace, and more and more trust!!!! Trust breeds yet more trust, it seems. The relationship breeds love too.....a love that is so tough and yet so tender, so unfailing, so inexhaustible......
The line that just says it all is "All through the storm, Your love is the anchor, my hope is in You alone". I really don't know how many times I have crumpled into hopelessness and collapsed in a corner, completely undone and shattered; God has always picked me up, many, many times - through this song that Brian Doerksen wrote. I stand today as living proof, and I don't mind if I say this as proudly as I can.
"Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf."
- Hebrews 6:17-20
It is always our souls that need the anchor. How I love that word "anchor"..... I don't know where you stand today, but in the storm, in the tempest, drop anchor.....in our God. Let Him be the anchor that holds you.
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