COMPLETE

God will complete all

That He purposed in His love

And He’ll include me.

Mother stabilised a bit, we think, but still very weak.

NO FUTURE BUT GLORY

No future but glory, Lord Jesus, have we,
How bright is the prospect of being with Thee!
Oh, Home of all homes, with the Father above,
Oh, wonderful dwelling of infinite love!

Home, Home, bright, bright Home!

How blessed the prospect, Lord Jesus, of Home!

No future but glory, Lord Jesus, have we,
For Man is in glory already, in Thee;
The brighter the glory that shines in Thy face,
The clearer our title to glory, through grace.
Home, Home, bright, bright Home!
Our future is glory, in Thy blessed home.

“This one thing” we’d do, we would press toward the goal,
Thyself, Lord, in glory, the Prize of our soul;
Forget what’s behind, for the bright things before,
Since all they who know Thee would know Thee still more.
Home, Home, bright, bright Home!
We press on to know thee and reach Thee at home!

In heaven alone is our city and state,
From thence, Lord, as Saviour, Thyself we await;
Our bodies to change, and conform them to Thine,
That we in Thine image and glory may shine.
Home, Home, bright, bright Home!
Soon we shall be with Thee and like Thee, at Home!

H D'A Champney (1854-1942)
My mother has been referring to the first line this week: "No future but glory, Lord Jesus, have we".

HIS GLORY

What glory, Lord, was Thine

Before the worlds began:

Ineffable, divine,

Beyond the mind of man.

We bow to Thy divinity,

Both from and to eternity.

What glory has been seen

In Thy descending grace,

Thy lowly mind and mien

That took a bondman's place.

Through Thy down-stooping Thou didst show

Thy moral glory here below.

Upon the cross of shame

What glory was displayed!

Though haters scorned Thy Name,

Though lovers were dismayed:

When Thou, O Lord, wast crucified

The Son of Man was glorified.

We see Thy glory shine

As at the greatest height:

The Father made it Thine

For Thou art His delight

And now the Spirit's power is known

Since Thou art on the Father's throne.

What glory Thou dost give

To those Thou hast acquired,

Who in Thee newly live,

And whom Thou hast desired

To be with Thee that they may see

The glory God has given Thee.

And can I ask you for prayers for my mother, now aged 91, and getting weaker: and looking for the lord to take her to be with Him?

RIGHT HAND

Tested and proved,

He was not moved

To turn because

He knew God was

At His right hand.

Through pain and shame

He overcame -

Though once disowned

He now is throned

At God’s right hand.

STEPHEN

How splendid for the martyr Stephen
To see His Lord's glorification:
But there was something greater even
Than that: Christ saw his admiration!

GLORY

When Satan offered Him glory

He rejected it, giving

The glory to God.

When men offer Him glory

He departed to the mountains

Himself alone.

But, speaking to the Father,

He could rejoice to

Ask to be glorified.

OFFERINGS

Christ, the Sin-offering
Took my sins; the Burnt-offering
Gave me His savour.

CALEB

The destroying angel

Was not a type to you -

The blood of the blameless lamb,

And its flesh,

Were a sober reality.

The congealed sea

Was close to you - the cloud

Was in your vision. So were

Living and dying pursuers.

The song was in

Your ears and mouth and heart.

Bitter water, sweet water,

Spring water and rock water:

You experienced them all.

You were there

As they worshipped Jehovah:

Where were you

When they worshipped the calf?

Guilty or not you must have learned

The heart of man.

Then that great journey

Up by the Negeb,

Up into the hill country,

To see the Land

What it is.

What is it?

Hebron, which anticipated Zoan;

And the Valley of the Bunch of Grapes.

Returning you bore substance -

This is the fruit of it -

As it was in your heart.

What was your disappointment

When you trudged on

Thirled to the doomed people,

A broken-hearted man,

Bonded to a fresh generation,

Who could tell them the Land’s terrain.

You did not evade

The serpent, the well,

The Jordan.

You would not have wished to.

“Jehovah has kept me alive,

As He said...

Give me this mountain

Of which Jehovah spoke."

What joy for you to see in the land

The new generation;

To disappear from view

As a blesser.