TO FOLLOW YOU FULLY IS HEAVEN
BEFORE HEAVEN IS REACHED by Henry Law Let us fix our eyes on Jesus. Hebrews 12 Oh Lord Jesus Christ,
in the wisdom of your tender mercy you have been pleased to
proclaim yourself as Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. These names are revealed
for our peace and joy, that we may acquaint ourselves with you
and find rest unto our souls. Help us by your Spirit entirely
to know you according to your word. Open widely the eyes of
our understanding that we may fully grasp the wonders which
you have already achieved by your sin-atoning death. The wonders
which you are achieving by your unfailing intercession the wonders
which are yet to come when you shall appear again in power and
great glory. Let your counsel sound sweetly
in the ear of our faith, and may we yield in humble obedience
to your sacred precepts. To follow you fully is heaven
before heaven is reached. Pardon us, that with such bright
revelations of yourself in the pages of Scripture, we have been
so slow to learn, and so prone to forget. when by this time
we should have climbed the highest heights of spiritual perception. But alas, we are grovelling in
low depths of ignorance. We are blind while light shines
around. Take away all scales from our
eyes, grind to dust all remnants of the evil heart of unbelief. Make it our chief joy to study
you, to meditate on you, to gaze on you, to hold communion with
you. Enable us to experience that
your flesh is food indeed and your blood is drink indeed. May
we be like Mary sitting meekly at your feet, like the beloved
disciple leaning on your breast, like Paul counting all things
as loss for the excellency of knowing you, like Peter appealing
to you who knows all things that we indeed love you. Let not our
faith cease from seeking you until it vanishes in unclouded
sight. Answer us for your love's sake. Amen.