If I But Read

The Lord I love went on ahead
To make a home for me He said.
He would come back again, and He
Oh, Gracious Love He wrote to me!

He knew I was so weak and blind
And foolish, that I could not find
The road alone. He wrote me things
That all earth’s wisemen and its kings

Have never guessed but I foreknow.
For I read His letter and oh
The depths of love on every sheet
My soul is trembling at His feet

What would He have thought of me
I when I saw Him I should say
I was to busy everyday
To read the letter You wrote to me
I really hadn’t time for Thee.

In Brief

Admit God’s Word to be His message to you.
Submit to the authority of the Book.
Commit the words of the Scriptures to your memory.
Transmit the message to someone else.

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