ENOCH

"What He did not find

In Adam He now finds in

A disciplined man." 

On the Holy Island of Lindisfarne

THE ARK AT REST

All God's inheritance is richly blest

Since, in the temple Solomon prepared,

The Ark of God is finally at rest.

Round it a system God chose to invest

With glory which will never be impaired

‑ All God's inheritance ‑ is richly blest.

It led the way in every storm or test

But now, past all the trials which they shared,

The Ark of God is finally at rest.

Since God's great wisdom knew which way was best

And He was there beside them as they fared

All God's inheritance is richly blest.

His people praise the Lord with joy and zest

As, while His lasting triumph is declared,

The Ark of God is finally at rest.

Because God knew the object of their quest

Before they ventured, and in all things cared,

All God's inheritance is richly blest;

The Ark of God is finally at rest.

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REMAINING AT JERUSALEM

 A fit place for the Ark he longed to find

When he was still a youth in Bethlehem;

So as the king he firstly had in mind

To bring it upward to Jerusalem.

But when they took the Ark when he was spurned,

And Absalom his son usurped his throne,

David ordained that it should be returned:

He would not make the Ark of God his own.

Peter loved Christ, rejoicing to belong

To such a Master, who did all things well;

But "Peter taking Him to him" was wrong

And moved by impulses Christ had to quell.

May I delight to call the Saviour mine

But on His terms since He remains divine.

Edinburgh view

Have you spotted this chap?

BRINGING THE ARK TO JERUSALEM

 Using the fleshly notion of a cart

They sought to carry up the Ark, but failed.

When they eschewed the ways of human art

And went by God's due order they prevailed.

And what a time of holy jubilance:

Hear voice and music praise with one accord!

See David, in true fervour, play and dance

In honour of the glory of the Lord!

Often desires are good, objectives right,

But means wrong, till the way that God desires

Is followed; and He has for His delight

His Christ and those that glorious One inspires.

What joy it is to God that He should find

Those who give Christ the honour God designed.

A lovely morning on Penicuik House Estate

THE ARK AND HOUSEHOLDS

No longer exiled in a foreign land

The Ark next suffered decades of neglect;

Abinadab could give the Ark room and

Still fail to teach his family respect.

But Obed‑Edom gave it its true place

So that one came to David to attest

The evidence of God's unfailing grace ‑

That through the Ark his household had been blessed.

The Pharisee invited Jesus in

But failed to give Him honour from the start;

The woman came near, conscious of her sin,

But gave the Lord the throne‑room of her heart.

Lord Jesus, may my household always be

One where the foremost place belongs to Thee.

A Few from Aberdeenshire