It's a beautiful picture of the
journey of all of humanity, isn't it? We are in a little vessel. in a great sea and we've left,
we've left paradise in our father Adam when we rebelled against
God and now we're in this troubled sea and now every one of you,
member of this human race is, while they live in this world,
is on an inner vessel and the vessel is fragile and they are
fragile and the sea is great and beyond their control. And this is a picture of all
humanity, but it's particularly of course a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ and how in the midst of all of that he comes to his
people and saves them. Here in the scriptures we see
not only the biography of our Lord Jesus Christ laid out and
all of his glories laid out before us, but we see the way he deals
with all of humanity, that we see particularly, of course,
the way he comes to rescue his own. This is a crossing that
we all must take. And it's good for us, I'm pleased
that Norm read those other accounts, for it's good to us to sort of
contemplate the picture here that the Lord Jesus Christ sends
these disciples into this dawn. He had taken them over that side,
across the Sea of Galilee, basically from the northwest corner to
the northeast corner, and the Sea of Galilee's about 13 kilometers
wide. But he'd taken them over there
and the crowd had followed them. He'd gone over there because
of the distress that the death of John the Baptist has caused
and the fact that they were so busy in the business of healing
people and dealing with people, they had no rest and they had
even no time much to even have a meal together. So they were
exhausted and they were distressed. And then on the other side, there
is the feeding of the 5,000. And you would think that this
is a great time to have a rest, isn't it? We fed the 5,000, the
Lord sent them away, but in the midst of all that the Lord Jesus
Christ sends these disciples, in fact, as you probably heard
when Norm was reading Mark's account, the Lord Jesus Christ
constrained them to go. Basically, they didn't want to
go. They were in this ship, they
were put in this ship and sent into this ship by the command
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And little did they know why
he'd sent them. of our lives, what a picture
of the fragility of our lives, what a picture of the fact that
no matter what we think of our journey, no matter how secure
we try and make our path through this world, the Lord in his sovereign
purposes will come and he will work his sovereign will for his glory and for the good
of his people to reveal our fragility in this world and to reveal his
faithfulness. to contemplate this passage without
going to Mr. Cooper's very well-known hymn
that you might know. I'm not sure why it's not sung.
Is it difficult to sing Norm? I don't know. Anyway, I'm not
sure. You don't hear it sung anywhere,
but it's a beautiful piece. I believe the story of its writing
was that Cooper had terrible, terrible depression and he lived
with John Newton and for many years he had such terrible depression
that he couldn't even attend church. He wrote hymns because
Newton said, if you write a hymn, I'll write a hymn. and is a way
of encouraging him, which is probably why we end up with remarkable
hymns that Newton wrote like Amazing Grace and so many others. But the story was that this particular
night the depression of Mr. Cooper had got to him and he'd
ordered a carriage to come and take him so that he would commit
suicide at a cliff somewhere nearby. And there was a very,
very deep and thick fog and the carriage driver got lost in the
fog. And he ended up outside the house
where Mr. Crickett was staying, outside
Newton's house. And he came inside having been
rescued out of that by a sovereign hand of God who brought a fog
and brought the carriage back to his place. So I understand,
this is his poem. God moves in a mysterious way,
his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the
sea and rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable minds of
never failing skill, he treasures up his bright designs and works
his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints' fresh courage
take, the clouds you so much dread, are big with mercy and
shall break in blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble
sense, trust him for his grace. Behind a frowning Providence,
he hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast,
unfolding every hour. The bud may have a bitter taste,
but sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure God is his own interpreter, and
he will make it plain. God is his own interpreter. We
have his interpretation in the book before us, haven't we? So
what an exciting story to be contemplating. I trust that the
Lord uses it for his glory and for our good. We're going to
sing number 71. Thanks, Normie. Upon my great and sovereign God,
I cast my soul in rest. My Father's hand controls the
world, and what he does is best. Oh How sweet the sound! As I said earlier, this is a
picture of our journey. This is a picture of a journey
of all humanity, but it's particularly, of course, it's a picture of
the Lord and his people. The Lord taking his people into
situations which are a place where he reveals their utter
insufficiency. He reveals their utter dependency
upon him. Without me, you can do nothing,
says the Lord Jesus Christ. and also he wants to and he does
he reveals his all sufficiency he does it all he does it all
and he does it all for his glory and as mr cooper says god is
his own interpreter and he will make it plain We look at the
circumstances of this world and if we look with eyes of unbelief,
we'll never see. We'll never see. It's through
the eyes of faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. And it's good to be reminded
of a couple of things. One is that all of these apostles
are exactly like us. They are no better than any of
us. And also, we need to be reminded that one of the men in this boat
was the devil, according to the end of this chapter, and we need
to be reminded that the circumstances that the apostles go through,
the circumstances that all believers go through, are extraordinarily
similar to the circumstances in the world. Judas's presence
with the disciples is a cause for us to be humbled. a cause
for us to be careful about presumption. It should be a cause for us to
come reverently before our God. But this, as I said earlier,
is a glorious picture of the journey of all of God's people
in a little vessel across the sea, and it seems as if the journey
has started out well for these people, and then the Lord sends
this storm. And it's really interesting,
isn't it? For those of you who have lived long enough, you are
not surprised by the fact that these disciples have just been
tested and had failed at the mountainside. Philip was tested,
wasn't he? And Andrew was tested, and both
of them failed in unbelief before the Lord. And as soon as that
remarkable event, what a remarkable time that must have been, fancy
feeding that enormous crowd, maybe 7,500 people, that's a
big crowd of people with a couple of little sardines and a few
little little round loaves of bread next to nothing, and you
end up with 12 basketfuls of bread, and the 12 basketfuls
of bread are probably in the boat in this journey. What a remarkable picture of
the provision of God, and then no sooner is Philip being tested,
and then there's this remarkable, remarkable revelation of the
glory and power of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's sent into another
trial. It so often happens, isn't it,
that trials come one upon the other. What a great picture of
life the waves of the tossing sea are, isn't it? We are raised
up and on top of the waves you have a great view and the sun
shines and all looks wonderful. And then in a moment you are
dashed out and you're in the depths and all you can see is
a cause for despair. And that was the case of these
disciples. Waves come, don't they? What
a great and extraordinary and poignant picture of the life
in this world where a trial comes and another trial comes and another
trial comes, and the waves are continually, it's a restless
sea, and the waves are continually beating upon the rocks. We can't
help but, in all of the Gospel accounts, go back to Genesis.
John begins his Gospel with Genesis 1.1, isn't it? Beginning God. And he says, in the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth. If you understand that
sentence, you will understand the most remarkable pictures
of everything else that ever happens. In the beginning, God
created. And the earth, verse two, the
earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face
of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. We have that picture here before
us, but also we have a picture of the promises of God in Isaiah
chapter 43. The Lord says, Thus saith the
Lord that created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel,
fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy
name. That's the situation of these
disciples in this boat, aren't they? They've been called. They've
been called into the very presence of God. And then he says, thou
art mine. Thou art mine. And then he says,
when thou passest through the waters, He doesn't say there
won't be waters. He says, when you pass through
the waters, I will be with thee. And through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire. Thou shalt not be burned, neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee. You think of Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego in a heartbeat, don't you? When you pass through
the waters, the waters will come and the fire will come. And then
in Isaiah 43 through, he gives a reason. For I am the Lord thy
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. He talks then about
his electing grace of these particular people. I gave Egypt for thy
ransom, Ethiopia and Saba for thee, since thou wast precious
in my sight. Thou hast been honorable and
I have loved thee. Therefore I will give men to
thee and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee.
I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the
west. I will say to the north, give up, and to the south, keep
not back. Bring my sons from afar and my
daughters from the ends of the earth. Even every one that is
called by not my name, for I have created him. Wise man created.
Why are these apostles, why does God do all this? I've created
him, I've created my people for my glory. I have formed him,
yea, I have made him. The question that these verses
obviously raise is the absolute sovereignty of God. Does he who
created have the sovereign right to do as he wishes with It's a very fundamental lesson
that's on the top of this, on the surface of this particular
passage, isn't it? That God has the right to do
with all humanity as he sees fit and everything he does is
right and perfect and just and holy. He is sovereign and you are not. You are in his hands. crossing a sea in which he directs
and controls absolutely everything. And this journey, this journey
of these disciples is the journey of every believing child of God
in this world. They were the Lord's servants,
but he sent them away. He constrained them to go into
the boat. They were doing the will of God. They were obeying God. And this storm comes from them. And he left them in it. We, brothers
and sisters, have our trials. just like the rest of the world.
But we, in the midst of the trials, have someone who's made a promise,
I'm with you, I'm with you. I'm with you, I can create and
I can control it all. So let's go back to our text
in John chapter six, verse 16. And now, even was come, and his
disciples went down to the sea, under the sea. As I said earlier,
in Matthew 14, it says Jesus constrained his disciples to
get into the ship. They entered into a ship and
went over the sea towards Capernaum. As I said earlier, they went
there in obedience to God. So we need to be mindful, don't
we, that when trials come, We don't know. It's so easy for
us, isn't it, to look around at other people and the distresses
they have in the world and say that it's all their fault. And
there's absolutely no question that for very many that is the
case. But if you use that maxim universally,
you're going to be wrong every time you come to be dealing with
the Lord's people. They entered in a ship and went
over the sea towards Capernaum. It was a calm sea when they set
off. And now it was dark and Jesus
was not come to them. And the sea arose by reason of
a great wind that blew. Matthew says that they were tossed
by the waves and the wind was contrary to them. So note the
situation of these disciples. It's dark. dark and they're in
danger and the Lord's not with them. The Lord's not with them. It says in Mark's Gospel that
the Lord saw them toiling For God's people, and especially
in the trials, but even more particularly in the trials of
the riches and the wealth and the good things that this world
gives us, we can always be more aware of his absence than his
presence. The Lord's presence with his
people is often rare and fleeting, but incredibly significant, isn't
it? But he saw them. He knew what was going on. He
controls the wind and the waves. So when they had rowed about
20 or 30 furlongs, that's about five or six kilometers, so they're
about halfway in the sea, their backs to the destination, their
backs to where they were going, their faces towards the mountain
where the Lord was, And this is now, according to Matthew,
it's three o'clock in the morning. If they left at seven, they have
been toiling now for eight hours. And the wind was against them,
so if that little boat had a sail, the sail was no use, you would
have put it down. They were rowing and toiling,
what a picture. to get toward his destination. You can just imagine the 12 of
them in the boat, can't you? Rowing until they're exhausted,
bailing water until they're exhausted. Danger, darkness, desertion is
all that they felt. See, Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ,
brings a storm. brings a storm upon his people. So often he brings a storm before
he brings the light of his grace. He brings the darkness before
he brings the light of his countenance. He brings you to the end of yourself
before he reveals the glory of his provision. So the Lord Jesus
Christ is seen most clearly and most gloriously in the depths
of darkness, in the depths of despair, in the depths of apparent
desertion. Then he comes, then he comes,
having sent them on this journey. And I love what it says, they
see Jesus. Verse 19, they see Jesus. See, they had just seen the Lord
Jesus Christ feeding that 5,000 people on the mountainside, and
none of what we read in this account did they encounter there. They saw him like the people
did. They saw him as a miracle worker.
They saw him as someone who would be an excellent king in an earthly
manner, and he says his kingdom's not of this world. So when do
we really see the Lord Jesus Christ, and what do we see when
we really see him? The first thing that happens
throughout the scriptures when you see the Lord Jesus Christ,
you see him as a supernatural being. You see him as a king. You might recall Saul on the
Damascus Road. There was a light that was brighter
than the sun. And Saul, was a beggar in the dust before
the Lord Jesus Christ. When the Lord Jesus Christ reveals
Himself, He's always going to reveal Himself as high, lifted
up and glorious. You know the story well in Isaiah,
but it's good to repeat it because it's the story of everyone that
meets the Lord Jesus Christ throughout the Scriptures. Everyone that
really meets Him, meets Him as a supernatural, sovereign, glorious
King. and all their notions of who
God is and who they are and how God saves sinners are just swept
away by the glory of God. Isn't it, Isaiah? If you ever
get a chance to read Isaiah, the first five chapters, he's
woeing everyone. He's placing God's curses upon
everyone around him, all the nations around, all those rebellious
nations. And then he says, In the year
the king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne. If you ever see the Lord Jesus
Christ, you'll see him sitting upon a throne. High and lifted
up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims,
each had six wings, with twain, with two he covered his face,
with two he covered his feet, and with twain did he fly. And
one cried unto the other, and said, holy, holy, holy. When you see the Lord Jesus Christ,
you're gonna see him as other and separate. You're gonna see
him supernaturally. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. And the posts of the door moved
at the voice of him. Even inanimate dead objects had
the decency to tremble at the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the house was filled with
smoke. And what did Isaiah say? When you meet him, when you really
meet him, he will create a darkness. He will create a situation where
you are made to know what you really are. Then said I, woe
is me for I am undone. I am completely unraveled. Isaiah
was a priest. Isaiah was in the most remarkably
privileged position in Israel. For I am undone, and then he
says, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips, and mine eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of hosts. And if you really see him, he'll
come supernaturally. He'll come as a holy God, a sovereign
God. He'll come with all the declarations
of his glory. But also when he comes, he always
comes. He comes in saving mercy. Then
flew one of the seraphims under me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with tongs from off the altar. The
only possible hope of your salvation is in the sacrifice and the perfect
finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ in his blood. And he laid
it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this has touched thy lips, and
thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. That story
of Isaiah is replicated throughout the Old Testament when people
meet God, when people meet the Lord Jesus Christ. When he comes,
he's going to come in such a way that you'll see him as a supernatural,
in a supernatural way. They thought they had a king
in their hands, those people on that mountainside, and the
disciples were very pleased. Wouldn't it have been good if
he was a king, and we're the ones that are handing out the
food, We've got a pretty special place for ourselves, haven't
we? Such is the thoughts of anyone who thinks that the Lord Jesus
Christ has got an earthly kingdom. He's a king now. If he's not
a king now, he can't ever be a king in the future. And he'll
reveal his glory as beyond this physical realm. He cannot be
explained in earthly terms and categories. He cannot be explained
by human understanding is high and lifted up, walking on the
sea, walking on the sea. In fact, he was walking so vigorously
on the sea that Mark says that he was about to overtake them.
It looked as if he was walking so well on this sea. See, that
which brought fear to these men, that which brought the thoughts
of their imminent death, that which exposed their vulnerability
and possible death. He walked above it. He walks
above it. He's untroubled. He brings the
circumstances to pass, but he's above them. He rules all, and
he's ruled by none. These waves of the sea, it's
a picture, isn't it, of this fallen world and the sin of unbelief. There is, in the new heavens
and the new earth, no more sea. No more sea, but there's a sea
of glass before the throne of God, and it's perfectly flat
and perfectly calm. When you see the Lord Jesus Christ,
you're going to see Him high and lifted up. You're going to
see Him supernaturally. You're going to see Him above
this creation. You're going to see Him above
the things that cause your distresses and reveal your vulnerabilities.
When you see the real Lord Jesus Christ is when He comes to you. He came to them. He came to them. to his people, he comes near
to you. There will be no knowledge of
him and no knowledge of yourself until he reveals himself and
he must come. And that's why the church keeps
saying come, come and see, come and welcome the Lord Jesus Christ. Come, come Lord Jesus is how
the scriptures finish. Lord Jesus, he comes to his own. See when it's impossible for
us to come to him, when the deep sea and the great storm stops
us getting into his presence, he comes to his own. In the midst of all that, Moses
went through a divided sea that was dry land. The Lord Jesus
Christ walks above the sea. He's so much above Moses. The wind, the distance, and the
storms, and the waves, and the wind, and all of the distresses
that men see are no hindrance to him coming. He rides above
that. See, the greater the trial, the
more easy it is. Well, easily it is for us to
see his faithfulness, his power, and his love. He makes a highway
through the sea. When he comes, he will reveal
himself as supernatural and holy. He'll reveal himself as above
all of this. When he comes, he will come drawing
near to people. When he comes, there will be
a proper perspective on fear. So they were afraid of the wind
and the waves, and now they saw him, and they were afraid again. now a reverential awe of him. When he comes, he will create
an awe, a reverential awe. He will create a bowing down
before him. He will create a perspective
on fear, isn't it? People fear all sorts of things
in this world. And people can be made to be
afraid of all sorts of things, and justly so. But when the Lord
Jesus Christ comes and reveals himself, then there's only one
issue, isn't it? There's only one issue. It's
him. See, death is the king of terrors
and these men were a heartbeat away from being at the bottom
of the sea. And so is every single one of us. We think that we're
secure, don't we? We have all of these modern means
of procuring our journey in this life and being freed from all
ills. We are just a heartbeat away
in our little vessel in that stormy sea. We are a heartbeat
away. away from meeting him. Death
is the king of terrors, but in the Lord Jesus Christ he says,
you have passed from death to life. You have passed. These
people were passing. They'd passed because of his
work in their lives, but now they see it pictured. The sting
of death is sin, but the Lord Jesus Christ has taken the sting
of death away, and God's people don't die. God's people don't die. God's people lose this body of
flesh that causes all these terrors and all these other things. God's
people don't die. God's people leave this place
and go immediately into the glory and the presence of God. Their
life begins, the moment of their last heartbeat, in the twinkling
of an eye, they're in the very presence of God. Such is the
glory of our God. When you see Him, you'll see
Him supernaturally, you'll see Him because He comes and you'll
see You'll see what real fear is. Don't fear those that can
kill the body. Don't fear those that can kill
the body. You fear him. You fear him who
can cast body and soul into hell. They feared exceedingly. What
manner of man is this? of his people. He says in Jeremiah
32 40, I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall
not depart from me. A reverential awe that God creates
in the hearts of his people is called the beginning of wisdom.
It's called the fountain of life. It's called a strong confidence.
Isaiah calls it a treasure, a treasure to have a reverential awe of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a treasure that endures
forever. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes,
he'll speak. He'll speak as no one else ever
can speak. Listen to what verse 20 says.
But he saith unto them, it is I. Be not afraid. Stop being frightened. You know
what he says to them? He says, I am. He says, I am
God. I am the good shepherd. My sheep
hear my voice. When he comes to his own in the
midst of all of these distresses, he will speak peace to the hearts
of his people. My sheep will hear my voice.
He is God. has arrived. I am is now with
you. I am who sent you on this journey.
I am who raised the tempest both on the lake and in your soul.
I am who sent the affliction and says I'll be with you. I
am who kindles the furnace and will watch the flames so that
they won't harm you. All that happened to Shraddra,
Ameeshak and Abendigo in that furnace is that they lost to
things even have the smell of the smoke on them. Our great
God brings a cup of grief and then causes us to see the hand
of God upon our circumstances. He speaks peace and he comes,
he comes supernaturally, he comes powerfully, he comes particularly
to you and he speaks peace. Listen to what he says. Be not
afraid. Be not afraid. You don't have any more reason
to fear when he is present with you. You have no reason. He who walks above the storms
speaks a powerful voice to both still the storms, but bring a
calm to the hearts of his people. He speaks, he speaks personally
to his people. Has he brought you to a place
of that sort of distress? Has he brought you circumstances
where there is no hope with the things of this world? Has he
brought that soul distress to you where you're made to cry
out to him because there's no other place to go? And when the Lord Jesus Christ
comes, he reveals his presence and he speaks his words. He speaks
a word of his glory. He speaks a word of his divinity
and his deity. He speaks a word of reassurance
to his people. I am. Verse 21. And then they willingly received
him into the ship. They willingly received him. They willingly received he who
put them into the sea. They willingly received him who
caused the waves. They willingly received him who
walked above the waves. They willingly received him. What is it to receive the Lord
Jesus Christ? John gives us the answer, doesn't
he? He came unto his own, and his
own received him not. But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God. Even to them
that believe on his name, they trust him. They trust his character. That's what his name is. It's
all of who he is as revealed in the scriptures. They believe
on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. They willingly receive him and
listen to the last of these remarkable miracles in this particular part
of this passage of scripture. And immediately, immediately,
the ship was at the land whither they went. When the Lord Jesus
Christ enters in the ship, you are immediately at your destination. You're perfectly safe and perfectly
secure on heaven's shores immediately. That ship travelled 6km or 7km
instantly. Instantly. The sea was calm, say the other
gospel accounts. They willingly receive him. When
the Lord comes and reveals himself, there is complete and immediate
salvation, safety on the shore, perfectly delivered from the
storms of sin and judgment and death, delivered from all that
causes your fear and distress. The cause of fear has been instilled
in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the ship of grace and
faith. There's no more rowing. You don't
row to the shore when he's there. You can imagine all the toil
that they put themselves through. Imagine all the toil that religion
puts people through. There's no more rowing. There's no more toiling. There's
no more of you needing to preserve this little ship. It's instantly
at the other shore. Matthew's account says, they
worshipped him. They worshipped him. Saying of a truth, thou art the
son of God. What is it to receive him? We
looked at it last week, isn't it? To receive him is to bow
in his presence. To receive Him is to acknowledge
who He is as Absolute Sovereign. To receive Him is to plead for
mercy. To receive Him is to be in reverential
awe of Him and what He says. It's to obey His command to believe. Paul went through a similar journey
on the road to Damascus and had three days of darkness in Damascus until the Lord came
and sent a preacher to preach peace to him. But he'd had a
peace beforehand, hadn't he? He'd been in the presence of
God and survived. He didn't bring in the presence
of the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in all of his glory. And listen
to what Paul said at the end of his life when the Romans were
sharpening their axe to remove his head from his body and put
him straight into heaven's glory in a heartbeat. He says, I know
whom I have believed. I know whom I have believed. and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have entrusted unto him." That word entrust
is to put a deposit into a bank, as it were. We entrust. What
do we entrust unto him? We entrust absolutely everything
unto Him, all. I entrust Him for all the forgiveness
of all of my sins. I entrust Him for all of my righteousness. I entrust Him for all of the
circumstances of my life and the circumstances of everyone
around me. Paul in 2 Timothy, you read the story of that man,
that remarkable man used of God so much and he was abandoned
by so many people and he says right at the end of his life,
It's a remarkable statement about what was going on in the church
in those early days, that he was left where he was in such
a state, that he says, but the Lord stood by my side. Paul doesn't say, I know how
much I have believed. longer a much. It's a who. I know whom I have believed. You're in a vessel, brothers
and sisters in Christ. For those who aren't, you're
in a vessel as well. And I fear what the sea will
do and I fear the destination. But you're in a vessel on a sea
of His appointing. A sea of his appointment. You
are here at an appointment. You have an appointment to keep.
And you're here. In this sea, in this little vessel,
he brings the waves. And he brings the toiling. And
he brings the fear of death. Unless he comes, unless he comes,
there is no hope in the darkness, in the danger and the desertion. But he'll come, he'll always
come to his own. What a cause for us to call on
Him to come, come, come Lord Jesus come. Salvation is all Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we do pray that you would reveal yourself as you did to these
apostles. Reveal your glory, your faithfulness
to your promises. Reveal, Heavenly Father, the
utter dependency of us in this journey of life upon your sovereign
hand of grace and mercy. that you would come as you have
promised. Come and gather, come and rescue
us. And Heavenly Father, as we begin
our journey, so it continues. We begin with so many storms
in our lives and we have so many storms that we must go through,
Heavenly Father. But if you're with us, immediately at the desired haven. Make you our desired haven, our
Father. We pray in Jesus name, in his
glory. Amen.