To the uttermost!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899)
Hebrews 7:25
My LORD JESUS CHRIST is
able to save me to the uttermost!
HE is able to save me the uttermost
depth of my need. Science is now
sounding the lowest abysses
of the ocean; but there is no
science, nor thought, nor
imagination, which can send
its plummet to the bottom
of CHRIST'S unsearchable grace!
Down to my sharpest sorrow HE goes,
down to my profoundest loneliness,
down to my keenest temptation,
down to my foulest sin!
HE traveled from Heaven to
Calvary to atone for my sin;
and I know of no descent which
HE will not make today.
HE is able to save me the uttermost
limit of my nature. And such
a many-faceted nature mine is!
The intellect has its demands, and
the memory, and the conscience,
and the imagination, and
the will, and the heart--
each of them cries out for
a separate satisfaction.
And each of them finds it in JESUS!
HE answers the questions of my intellect.
HE plucks the deepest sorrows from my memory.
HE cancels the accusations of my conscience.
HE paints the noblest pictures in my imagination.
HE renews and directs my will.
HE fills my heart with HIS love.
HE is able to save me to
the uttermost verge of my life.
My various conditions and experiences,
my conflict and my calm,
my work and my rest,
my gladness and my grief--
HE blesses me through them all.
Lo, HE is with me all the days,
even unto the end, and through the end,
and beyond the end forever and ever!
Death cannot part me from HIM
Eternity will only draw me closer to HIM.
To the ages of the ages--
HE is mine, and I am HIS!
CHRIST'S uttermost leaves
me no more to desire!
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GraceGems has J.A. James' superb article on Happiness.
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