Monday, October 23, 2017

GIVING ALL!

Music is one of God's sweetest gifts to us, and across the years many beautiful songs have lodged in my mind. Quite often I will find myself singing a wonderful old hymn that blesses my heart and deepens my desire to make it to that beautiful city where they need no sun!

Our pastor is preaching a series of messages on Sanctification, and I am so thankful this blessed experience is still for us all today!  From my heart, I like to sing -- "Nothing sweeter can be known than full surrender to the perfect will of God ----."

I was looking through the hymnal a few days ago and came across this old song, "Is Your All on the Altar" by Elisha Hoffman.  I trust the words will speak to your heart.

     "You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase,
And have earnestly, fervently prayed.
      But you cannot have rest or be perfectly blessed
Until all on the altar is laid.

      Would you walk with the Lord, in the light of His Word,
And have peace and contentment always?
      You must do His sweet will, to be free from all ill,
On the altar your all you must lay.

      Oh, we never can know what the Lord will bestow
Of the blessings for which we have prayed
      Till our body and soul He doth fully control,
And our all on the altar is laid.

      Who can tell all the love He will send from above,
And how happy our hearts will be made;
      Of the fellowship sweet we shall share at His feet,
When our all on the altar is laid!

            Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid?
               Your heart does the Spirit control?
            You can only be blessed, and have peace and sweet rest
                As you yield Him your body and soul"

Dear friend -- Have you yielded all?  ----   Nothing sweeter can be known!

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