May the Lord enable us to do
just that. Stand free in Christ. Be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage. If you'd like to open your Bibles
with me to Ruth, the book of Ruth, we're going to be looking
at a couple of verses in chapter one. And I've titled this message
When the Lord Visits. When the Lord Visits. Is that
not our hope? Our hope is that he'll visit
us. And he's promised to. He said
that he. walks among the candlestick.
We find him doing that in the book of Revelation. He inhabits
the praise of his people. Zion is his glory. These are
all references to his church. Where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there I am in the midst of them. And he's
so, so faithful to his promises and so faithful to his word.
We anticipate with great expectation, a visit from God. We have an
important person coming to visit us at home or wherever we anticipate
that visit. Oh, there's no man like this
man. When the Lord visits. Ruth chapter one, beginning of
verse six, then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she
might return from the country of Moab. For she had heard while
she was in the country of Moab, how that the Lord had visited
his people in giving them bread. The first thing I want us to
see is that the Lord only visits his people. He only visits his people. He
didn't visit anybody in Moab. Naomi heard about his visit in
Bethlehem, Judah, and wanted to be a part of that bread. But our God is, well, listen
to what the Lord said in Isaiah 42. He shall not cry, nor lift
up his voice in the street. He's not trying to get men's
attention. He's not pleading with men to let him have his
way. He's not some sort of desperate
God, wringing his hands in heaven, wishing that men would let him
come into their hearts. He visits his people. And he
only visits his people. And he always visits his people. He knows his sheep. He knows
where every one of them are. He seeks the lost. He leaves
the 99, if he must, to go find that one lost sheep. But not
one of his sheep is going to be lost. He visits his people. You know, I was thinking, when
the Lord raised from the dead, if I could say this with without shaming the Lord's glory
in any way. If it had been me, I'd have gone
to Pilate. I would have showed up at the
next meeting of the Sanhedrin. I would have gone face to face
with Caiaphas and showed him my glory. We know that it wouldn't
have saved them, but sure to put the fear of something in
their hearts. He never did that, and he's never
done it since. The Lord is not running around
trying to get people to believe on him. He visits his people. He sent Mary from the open tomb
to go find Peter and tell him that the Lord had risen. He visited
some 500 believers after his resurrection and before his ascension.
And to this very day, our Lord only visits his people. Which leaves each of us wondering Why was the Lord pleased
to visit me? Why would he bring me out of
Moab? He does it according to his good purpose. He does it
because he wills to do it. He does it because he chose a
people and placed his love on that people before the foundation
of the world. There's no cause in us that causes
us to differ. Who maketh thee to differ? He
makes a difference between the Egyptians and the Israelites.
But the Egyptians and the Israelites were the fewest among the people. He's the one that makes the difference.
Oh, Lord, visit me. Pass me not. Lead me. You see Caiaphas and Pilate and
the Sanhedrin and all the unbelievers, It's not that he had to do anything
to actively condemn them. He said, you're condemned already.
I'm just going to leave you to yourself. I'm just not going
to visit you. Lord, pass me not while on others
thou art calling. Lord, call on me. Don't pass me by. Visit me. God's elect. will always return
from Moab. Naomi had been in Moab for 10
years, and she had suffered great loss while in Moab. Her husband, you remember Elimelech,
took her to Moab, trying to find greener pastures, trying to find
a better life for him and his family. And he left Bethlehem,
Judah, which he never should have done. And now Elimelech
has died. Her two sons have died and she's
left a widow. And she hears, she hears while
still in Moab, she hears that the Lord has visited his people
in Bethlehem, Judah with bread. And she's drawn to return. He always pursues his wandering
sheep. He's not going to lose one. He
calls us out of darkness into his marvelous light. Some sheep
wander in Moab longer than others. The Apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus,
had wandered in the land of Moab for many years before the Lord
arrested him and then sent him to Damascus, to the street called
Straight. I love that. And sent Ananias
to him to lay his hands on him and preach the gospel to him
and bring his sight back. The Lord wasn't going to let
Saul of Tarsus end up in ruin. He was one of his. Now in contrast to Naomi being
ten years in Moab and and Saul of Tarsus spending much of his
life in Moab, Peter, the only of the Lord, allowed him to spend
a few days in Moab. Remember, after the crucifixion,
Peter went to the rest of the disciples and said, I'm going
back to Moab. No hope for me. I'm going to
go fishing. I'm going to go back where I
came from. I've ruined it. And then the
Lord sent Mary. Go tell Peter and the disciples,
but tell Peter first and foremost that I've risen. And the Lord
fetched him back out of Moab very quickly. I think about Mephibosheth
and how Mephibosheth was in Moab for a while and David fetched
him and brought him and sat him down at the king's table. The
Lord is always faithful to bring his children out of Moab. David spent a whole year in Moab. Remember after having Uriah put
to death and taking his wife Bathsheba and David living in
shame and guilt all the way until the time of the birth of that
child. Until the Lord said, that's enough. That's enough, David. And he sent Nathan to him. Nathan
said to David, thou art the man, David. And David said, oh, I've
sinned. David was brought back from Moab. That's what we want. Lord, visit
me in Moab. Don't let me linger in Moab.
Don't let me flirt with the borders of Moab. Lord, keep me in Bethlehem,
Judah. And he's faithful to do so for
his people. Those that aren't his will just
be left in Moab and they won't know the difference. Notice in our text in verse seven,
wherefore, she went forth out of the place where she was and
her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way
to return unto the land of Judah. There's always rejoicing when
the Lord visits. When the Lord visits, Leah, remember
Rachel and Leah and Jacob and And Jacob loved Rachel, and yet
Leah was the one giving him children. And she gave him Reuben, she
gave him Simeon, she gave him Levi, and then she gave him Judah. And she said, and she named him
Judah because Judah's name means praise. She said, now I have
reason to praise. My husband surely will love me
now. Judah being a type of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Judah is the name from which
we get our word Jew. It means to praise God. To praise God. And we know that
the Lord Jesus Christ came, according to the flesh, out of the line
of Judah. He's called the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, which hath prevailed. He's the one who's pictured by Judah
as our surety. You remember when Benjamin, when
they said, we've got to take Benjamin back to Egypt, and Judah
stood up and said, I'll be his surety. And if I don't bring
him back alive, you hold it to my account. You suppose there's
any possible way that the Lord Jesus Christ could possibly be
charged with not having brought back Benjamin from Moab? No, He stood as our surety before
His Father. And we praise God and we worship
Him. When the Lord brings us out of
Moab, it's not a sad experience. It's not a, oh, I hate leaving
Moab. No, no, it's rejoicing. The Lord has delivered me and
brought me back to Bethlehem, Judah, to praise Him and to worship
Him for His goodness toward me. David said in Psalm 24, lift
up your heads, O ye gates, and be lifted up you everlasting
doors. The King of glory shall come
in. Who is this King of glory? The
Lord strong and mighty, mighty in battle. The Lord is the King
of glory. The Lord is the King of hosts.
And we praise Him and we worship Him. And this praise and worship
is not some sort of feigned emotionalism. Oftentimes, this praise and worship
is inexpressible. It's a work of grace in the heart
when God brings us to His throne of grace and reveals to us glimpses
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ who brings all of His
people out of Moab. and we're brought to praise him.
If the Lord, when we join our hearts together and our voices
together in song, I hope that the Lord has given us the grace
to think about what we're singing. and to praise Him and worship
Him, I pray right now that as we hear God's Word, and as we
hear about Christ, the Lord's doing a work of grace, causing
us to worship in praise. This is not, you know, church
for a lot of people is just a ho-hum, you know, downer. No, for the
child of God, it's a, He brought us to Bethlehem, the house of
bread, Judah, to praise Him. to praise him. When the Lord
Jesus Christ entered into Jerusalem in his triumphal entry, just
days before his crucifixion, the crowd came together and they
threw palm fronds on the ground. And what did they cry? Hosanna
to the son of David, the Lord God of highest. What does that
word Hosanna mean? It means be propitious toward
us. Save us now. Lord, I need to
be saved right now. How do I know I'm praising God?
Because I'm coming to him right now to be saved. Right now. We're crying, Hosanna. Lord, be propitious towards me.
Put all the judgment and all the wrath for my sin on thy son. Be satisfied with the sacrifice
that he made for me. The Lord gives us faith to look
on Christ. We come to Bethlehem, Judah,
praising God, praising God, worshiping him in thanksgiving. This is the song that we'll be
singing in glory. If we can't sing it now, Oh,
nothing in heaven to look forward to. Worthy is the lamb that was
slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor
and glory and blessing. Oh, that's what worship is. It's a time of praise. It's a
time of Judah. Judah, worshiping Him. not with some feigned emotionalism
like they do in religion, pretending to worship God when they have
no understanding of why they should praise God. We praise
Him for who He is. We praise Him for what He has
accomplished in the redemption of our souls, in the putting
away of our sin, in the establishment of our righteousness, in the
fulfillment of the law, in justifying us by His shed blood, Oh, we
have reason to praise. She left Moab because she was
one of the Lords. Her and Ruth. Ruth's name means
friendship. And we see in Ruth a picture
of the believer coming with Naomi. if you will, a picture of Christ
to Bethlehem, Judah. And what does Ruth say? No, she
says, oh, no, your God will be my God. Your people will be my
people. Where you live, I live. And where
you die, I'll die. I'm your friend. I'm a friend
of God's, and I'm a friend of God's people. And we have a friend. We have a friend that sticketh
closer than a brother, the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, no longer
I call you my servants, for a servant doesn't know what his master's
doing. No, I call you my friend. We know what he's done. By his
grace, he's revealed his work of redemption for us. Worthy, worthy is the Lamb. Thanksgiving and praise is what
God's people do. when the Lord visits them. He
turns their mourning into gladness. He turns their sorrow into joy. No, He doesn't leave us to wallow
in the shame of our sin. He shows us what Christ has done
to put away our sin. He causes us to rejoice in Him. This is how we know that the
Lord's visited us. If all we have is the guilt and
shame and sorrow of our sin, without any hope of redemption,
then the conscience can do that. All men are born with a conscience
of knowledge of right and wrong, and the conscience is capable
of causing shame and guilt. Matter of fact, I would suggest
to you that most of the problems in the world, emotionally speaking,
are people who are burdened with guilt and shame and have no hope
of redemption. Fear and guilt and shame causes
a lot of problems. A lot of problems. But here we
come to Judah. The Lord Jesus Christ bore that
shame. He bore that guilt. He's the
one that said, I will be sorry for my sins. And God saw the
travail of his soul. And God said, I'm satisfied.
I'm satisfied. Now we don't wallow around in
our, in our sin and our guilt. We come to Christ, not if not
the Lord's visit. And you can be right where the
Lord's visiting and not have the Lord visit you. That happens. You should stand up here. Sometimes
people are just completely checked out. I pray the Lord will visit us as a a cooperative body, a cumulative
total. I pray he'll visit each one of
us. If he does, he will visit us
with bread. Notice in our text how that the
Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. We know who that bread is. when
Melchizedek after the battle of the kings in Genesis chapter
14 comes and meets Abraham and Abraham gives him tithes. The
scripture says that Melchizedek, this pre-incarnate appearance
of the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who is the king of Salem and
the priest, he brings with him bread and wine. When we celebrate
the Lord's table, we are celebrating the body and the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Anytime the Lord visits, that's
how he visits. He visits with his body and with
his blood. He said, my body is your meat
indeed. He feeds hungry souls with the body of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Lest you eat of my body, there's
no life in you. His life is our life. Unless
you drink of my blood, no life in you. His sacrificial death
atoned successfully for all the sins of all of God's people.
And we look to his death on Calvary's cross. He always visits his people
with bread. This is the showbread that stayed
in the tabernacle all the time. This is the bread of life. This
is the manna that came down from heaven. This is the unleavened bread
that was prepared by the Israelites at the Passover, a bread that
is without sin. We lift up. When God visits his
people, he visits them in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The life of Christ becomes their
life. The death of Christ becomes their
only hope of redemption. Notice in verse seven, wherefore
she went forth out of that place where she was. This is a work,
this is repentance. She left the place that she was. And her two daughters-in-law
with her, and they went on the way. They went on the way. The way. There's only one road
that leads from Moab to Bethlehem. Only one road. The Lord Jesus
Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Paul, I
love that passage in Acts when Paul is being accused falsely
by the Jews of being an insurrectionist against the Romans. And he says,
that way, which they call heresy, They say I'm a follower of the
way and they say that it's heresy. He said, that's the way I worship
God. Believing all things that are written in the prophets and
in the scriptures. I believe everything that God's
written. Following after the way. For the scriptures are written
in order to reveal that way. How would we find the way? Some people say, well, is the
law your rule for Christian living? No, Christ is our rule for Christian
living. He is the way, He's the one we
look to. And He's the one revealed in this book, in the volume of
the book it is written of me. Now the details of our experience
may differ from person to person. They certainly did in the believers
in the Bible. Saul of Tarsus was brought out
of legalistic religion to know the way, to know Christ. And we see the contrast of that
with Mary Magdalene, who was possessed with seven demons and
probably a woman of the streets. And now she's wiping the Lord's
feet with her hair and washing them with her tears. The Lord
brought them from two different places. The Lord brought a beggar
by the name of Bartimaeus who had nothing. There's one thing
in common between all the different individuals that the Lord brings
to this one road, the way. The way is narrow, there's one
way. The road to destruction is broad and many are they that
find it, but the road to eternal life is a narrow road and few
are they that are on it, but they all get there the same way,
by Christ, by Christ. regardless of their experiences.
Some of them were of the household of Caesar. Some of them were
polytheists of Athens. Some of them were, one way, God
brings up his people from lots of different walks of life, lots
of different experiences, but he brings them all to the same
way. There's one road that goes from Moab to Bethlehem, Judah. and Naomi and Ruth. And at this
point, Oprah was on that road. And notice in verse eight, and Naomi said
unto her two daughters-in-law, go, return, each to her mother's
house. And the Lord deal kindly with
you as you have dealt with the dead and with me." Now the rest
of this chapter, most of it, is Ruth's conversation with her
two daughter-in-laws, trying to persuade them to go back. Orpah goes back. She goes back. Orpah's name, the names in the
Bible are so significant. Orpah's name in the Bible means
to turn quickly like a gazelle. Her name means gazelle. And I
remind you that Orpah was married to Chileon, which means pining,
pining away. And it's a picture of the, here's
my point. When God visits his people, he
always leaves a door open for some to leave. He always leaves a door open
for some to leave. Orpah, showed by her willingness
to go back who she'd been married to. You know, the unbeliever,
Oh, unbelievers will say, well, I'm just pining away. You know,
I'm, I'm doing my best. I'm trying to, I'm trying to
keep the law and I'm hoping that in the end, everything that I'm
doing is going to be sufficient. And Orpah, his wife, the quick,
swift gazelle to turn back follows after where her husband was.
Goes back to Moab. Ruth, on the other hand, was
married to Chilion and Chilion's name means sick. And God's people
know that they are sick with sin. And her name means friendship. And she said, no, I'm not going
back. I'm not going back. When God visits his people, he
always leaves an open door to leave if you can. Leave if you can. And here's
the sad truth. If you can, you eventually will. That's just the sad truth of
it. Did not the Lord say to the disciples after 5,000 people,
5,000 men, I correct myself, perhaps 15, 20,000 people left
him when he said the only reason you're following me is so you
can have your bellies full. The Lord turned to the disciples
and said, aren't you going to go with them? Will you lead me
also? There's the open door. You know, in religion, we've
got a Jesus who's constantly looking for a following and begging
men to let him into their hearts and begging men to let him have
his way. The God who is will have his way with his people.
He will call every one of them out of Moab. He will bring them
rejoicing to Bethlehem, Judah. And he will say to the rest of
them, leave if you can. Of course, when men do leave,
and I know this by experience, it's never with an honest confession
that we don't believe the gospel. It's either that man's not preaching
the gospel, or someone has offended me, or, you know, I've heard
every excuse under the sun. I mean, people They don't leave
and say, you know, I don't believe that gospel. I'm out of here.
Now they may do that the first one or two times that they come,
but I'm talking about someone who's been here for a while,
who's heard the gospel. They never leave saying, I don't
believe the gospel. It's always someone else's fault. But they do leave. And John said,
they went out from us because they were never of us. When God
visits his people, the back door is always open for those who
can leave to leave. And it grieves the hearts of
God's people when that happens. But it happens. And that's exactly
what Naomi is saying to her two daughters. Oprah. Swift gazelle to turn back. Can you follow after your husband
who was butt pining? Oh yeah, I'm gonna go back to
Moab. Ruth, friendship. You were married to Chilean whose
name means sick. Can you go back to that? Oh no.
No, I've got to go with you to Bethlehem, Judah. You see, this
is what happens every single time God visits. The Lord, she
heard the Lord had visited his people in Bethlehem, Judah. Still happening. Let me ask a simple question.
How is this bread that the Lord visited his people with eaten? How is it eaten? If I can give
a silly analogy, it's eaten through your ears, not your mouth. Okay? It's the one bread that
we eat through our ears. Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. You see, we're eating right now. We're sitting at the master's
table and he's breaking the bread like he did to the disciples
on the road to Emmaus in Luke chapter 24. And our eyes are
being opened. I pray that's the case. And we're
seeing Christ for who he is. And we're brought rejoicing to
Bethlehem, Judah. And we're glad that the Lord
came and found us in Moab and we're glad that we weren't able
to leave. The Lord said, why do you not
understand my speech, speaking to the Pharisees? And then he
said, he answered his own question, because you cannot hear my word. Some just aren't able to, the
hearing ear and the seeing eye are both from the Lord. God doesn't
give us ears to hear. We'll not hear. The dead shall hear the voice
of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. Have you heard? Have you heard who Christ is?
Have you heard what He's done? Can you rejoice in Him? Delight
in Him? Rest in Him? With all the trials
and troubles of this world? You find your hope? In Christ? Christ is all? The Gentiles heard and were glad. They were glad. This is what
happens when the Lord visits. When God visits His people, He
calls a man and gives him a message. One message. I made the mistake,
26 years ago, Henry Mahan came and preached for us the very
first time he came, came a few times. And I made the mistake
as a new believer of asking Brother Henry, I said, what are you going
to preach on tonight? He looked at me and he said,
Christ, I learned that lesson right there. Never, never forgot
it. Never ask another gospel preacher, what are you gonna
preach on tonight? Then I turned around and I said, where are
you gonna preach Christ from? We have one message, one message. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
message. He is all and he is in all. And
he said that I be lifted up, I'll draw men to me. We preach
Christ and Him crucified. And we are determined not to
know anything else among you. Anything else. And when God sends,
when God visits His people, He sends a man to preach Christ.
We don't, if God, if man's not been sent of God, He's going
to preach everything but Christ. He's going to preach doctrine.
He's going to preach history. He's going to tell stories. He's
going, you know, he's going to do anything he can to tickle
the ears of men. That's what the Lord said these
false prophets do. They tickle men's itching ears,
telling them what they want to hear. God's people want to hear
about Christ. Who he is. You see, God sends one beggar. to tell another beggar where
they can find bread. That's what preaching is. A nobody
telling everybody about somebody who can save anybody. That's
what preaching is. That's what God does when he
visits his people. He doesn't visit apart from that. Sometimes The Lord's pleased
to give hearing ears to that message. I often think about
Isaiah's experience when the Lord said, who shall go and who
shall we send? And Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter
six, he said, Lord, hear my, send me. And so the Lord said,
okay, you go and you preach the gospel to these people. They're
going to have ears, but they're not going to hear. And eyes they're
going to have, but they're not going to see. You're going to
be preaching to a rebellious people, an unbelieving people.
And Isaiah said, oh Lord, how long do I have to do that? And
the Lord said, until the cities be wasted without inhabitants
and the land be utterly desolate. You just keep preaching the gospel,
Isaiah. You keep preaching Christ and
don't look to the results of what you're doing for you just
be faithful to preach Christ. If God visits his people. He will cause a man. You see, if a man who preaches as a profession
ever preaches Christ, he'll lose his job. He'll lose his job. They'll fire him real quick.
You know that. And some men know What they're
preaching is not true, but they love the praise of men more than
the praise of God, and they love their jobs more than they love
Christ, and so they won't preach the gospel. God visits a people. He will send a man that will
make no apologies and no compromises for preaching the person and
work of the Lord Jesus Christ, lifting him up. The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, like John the Baptist, behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sins of the world. That's the message we preach
every time we come together. Every time. Go to different places
of the Bible. So we're looking at the same
diamond, just turning it each time and observing a different
facet of it. What a glorious diamond he is,
pearl of great price. Jeremiah, the Lord called the
prophet Jeremiah to preach the gospel and he got discouraged
as all preachers do. All preachers get discouraged.
You know, we try to prepare a meal and no one comes to eat. You
know, you know what that's like. go out of your way to do, and
people don't come, and you get discouraged. Jeremiah said, then I said, I
will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name.
That's what Jeremiah said. I've determined I'm done with
this. His word was in my heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones. And I was weary with forebearing
and I could not stay. I could not restrain from speaking
of Christ. God visits his people. He will
raise a man with that determination. When Zechariah chapter 13, verse
five, when a false prophet was called and revealed the gospel
to him, here's what the false prophet said. I was no prophet. I wasn't preaching the gospel.
I was a husbandman. And that word means a keeper
of men. For a man taught me to keep cattle
for my youth. There's the false prophet. He's
just a keeper of men. And he learned what he learned
from another man, keeping cattle. But now he's able to say, I was
no prophet. God has revealed that to me. When God visits his people, He
gives his people a need and a desire. There's a difference. You might
be sick and have a need to go to the doctor, but you've got
no desire to go. But when God visits his people,
not only does he give them a need, he gives them a desire. Oh, I've
got to run to the great physician. He's going to be, you know, we
don't have a desire to go to the doctor because we don't know
what they're going to do. Are they going to cut on me? Are they going to
stick a needle in me? Are they going to, you know, probe on
me? What, you know? But no, this doctor, no, he's
going to, he's going to heal me with a sweet word of kindness
and love. He's going to take away my sin.
And he gives, puts into the heart of his people a need for Christ. And he puts into his heart of
his people a desire for Christ. They've tried religion. Religion
doesn't meet their deed, and they have no more desire for
it. Family and friends, oh, we love our family and friends,
and they meet so many of our needs, and we delight in being
around family and friends, but family and friends can't meet
the need of my soul. No family member can meet my
need for Christ. I've got to have Christ or I
die. The world, we enjoy the pleasures of this world that
God has provided for us, but we've come to the place of where
we understand the world cannot meet my needs. It cannot meet
them. And here's the truth. The unbeliever,
the reprobate who will never come to Christ, they're not satisfied
with friends and family either. They're not satisfied with the
world either. They're not satisfied with religion. They're really
not. They're really not. But it is the anticipation of
being satisfied that keeps them there. Do you see that? It's the anticipation that one
day, if I have enough family members, enough friends, enough
money, if I do enough in religion, the anticipation of these things
providing for them what they need is what keeps them in it.
God's people have come to realize by God's grace, there's nothing
in religion and there's nothing in family and there's nothing
in the world that can meet this need that God has given me. I've
got to have Christ. When God visits, that's what
he does. Psalm 80 verse 14. Return, we
beseech thee, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven and behold
and visit this vine. Visit this, what a glorious prayer.
Lord, visit this vine. Behold me. Lord, look at my need. Have mercy upon me. Lord, do
for me what you did for Naomi and Ruth. Bring me out of Moab. Bring me to the land of rejoicing.
Provide for me a man like you did for the Ethiopian eunuch. Remember when Philip asked him,
understand this what thou readest, how can I accept a man should
guide me? Lord, provide for me a man that
will remain faithful in all the trials and discouragements that
he may have, that remain faithful to preach Christ to me. I've
got to have Christ. Behold, visit this vine. When God visits, this is what
he does. Our heavenly father, Bless your
word and visit us with your grace. We ask it in Christ's name, amen. 168, let's stand together. so Lord, I hear of showers of blessing,
Thou art scattering full and free. Showers the thirsty land
refreshing, Let some drops now fall on me, even me. ? Even me, let thy blessing fall
on me ? ? Pass me not, O tender Savior ? ? Let me love and cling
to thee ? ? I am longing for thy favor ? ? Whilst thou art
calling, O call me ? Even me, even me, let thy blessing fall
on me. Ask me not, O mighty Spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see. Witness, O Sir, of Jesus'
merit, Speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, let
thy blessing fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and boundless,
magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. ? Pass me not thy lost one bringing
? ? Bind my heart, O Lord, to thee ? ? While the streams of
life are springing ? ? Blessing others, O bless me, even me ?
Even me, let thy blessing fall on me.