Daily Light on the Daily Path
June 29
His commandments are not burdensome.
“This is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life.”—Whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
“My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”—“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. . . . Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding. . . . Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.—Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.—I delight in the law of God, in my inner being.
This is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another.—Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 5:3; John 6:40; 1 John 3:22; Matt. 11:30; John 14:15, 21; Prov. 3:13, 17; Ps. 119:165; Rom. 7:22; 1 John 3:23; Rom. 13:10
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/e/letuslov.htm
Let us love and sing and wonder,
Let us praise the Savior’s Name!
He has hushed the law’s loud thunder,
He has quenched Mount Sinai’s flame.
He has washed us with His blood,
He has brought us nigh to God.
Let us love the Lord Who bought us,
Pitied us when enemies,
Called us by His grace, and taught us,
Gave us ears and gave us eyes:
He has washed us with His blood,
He presents our souls to God.
Let us sing, though fierce temptation
Threaten hard to bear us down!
For the Lord, our strong Salvation,
Holds in view the conqueror’s crown:
He Who washed us with His blood
Soon will bring us home to God.
Let us wonder; grace and justice
Join and point to mercy’s store;
When through grace in Christ our trust is,
Justice smiles and asks no more:
He Who washed us with His blood
Has secured our way to God.
Let us praise, and join the chorus
Of the saints enthroned on high;
Here they trusted Him before us,
Now their praises fill the sky:
“Thou hast washed us with Your blood;
Thou art worthy, Lamb of God!”
Hark! the Name of Jesus, sounded
Loud, from golden harps above!
Lord, we blush, and are confounded,
Faint our praises, cold our love!
Wash our souls and songs with blood,
For by Thee we come to God.
—John Newton, 1774
FATHER IN HEAVEN, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE IN OUR LIVES, YOUR WILL OF SALVATION TO THE UTTERMOST.
WE HONOR YOU WITH OUR LIVES AND OUR HEARTS; MAY THEY BE YOURS ENTIRELY AND NOT AFAR OFF FROM YOU.
HELP US TO REMEMBER THIS IS YOUR WORLD, AND YOUR SALVATION AND THE LIFE YOU HAVE GIVEN FOR YOUR GLORY.
WE WILL REST IN YOUR WONDERFUL WORKS.
GREAT AND MIGHTY ARE YOU MOST HOLY AND LOVING FATHER.
BY THE POWER AND GLORY IN THE ONLY NAME IN WHICH IS SALVATION; JESUS!
BTTT