LIPS

"And I said, Woe unto me! 

for I am undone; 

for I am a man of unclean lips, 

and I dwell in the midst 

of a people of unclean lips";

"Asps' poison is under their lips" ...

But there is a Man, 

Of whom it can be said,

"His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh":

Pure word, sprung from suffering love,

For grace is poured into His lips.

While "He that loveth pureness of heart, 

upon whose lips is grace" -

May I have this blessing! -

"The king is his friend".

He has His answer in someone

Whose "lips are like a thread of scarlet",

Bright as Rahab's signal.

... One of the seraphim

Took the glowing coal

From the altar, and said,

"Behold, this hath touched thy lips; 

and thine iniquity is taken away, 

and thy sin expiated".

Joshua 2: 21

Psalm 45: 2

Proverbs 22:11

Song of Solomon 4:3

Song of songs 5: 13 

Isaiah 6: 5

Romans 3: 13

Straiton Pond (again)

SENSES

 

Blest Spirit, help increase my appetite

For Jesus whom Thou dost present as food;

I long to savour more of this delight

Since I have tasted that the Lord is good.

Thou didst, blest Spirit, open up my ear

To hear the Saviour when I was astray;

Help me to listen and have ears to hear

Thy word to the assemblies day by day.

Though Moses died His eyesight did not dim -

O Spirit of the Lord control my sight

That with my eyes exclusively on Him

My body always may be full of light.

The Lord of life has touched me in my need:

He lifted me and set me up through grace -

Blest Spirit, help me handle well I plead

The substance of this elevated place.

A life entirely for the Father's will

And death entirely to the Father's mind

Rose as a fragrance - may, blest Spirit, still

Such fragrance rise from those Thou hast refined.

(I was reminded of this old one by https://freshinsightsonancienttruths.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-danger-of-distractions.html?sc=1759662611678#c7761740279406800422

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