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To: markomalley; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; ...
In my parish, we occasionally sing a hymn that says, “I surrender all, all to Jesus I surrender, I surrender all.” Sometimes I wink at the end of the song and say, “liars!” And we all laugh because we know we barely surrender half. But one day the Lord will get us there!

This, and the other admissions, are honest but really excuse lying, as indeed we are lying, and i have, when singing words of such hymns that are not a reality with us to varying degrees. Even if those who wrote them were testifying to an overall reality using some degree of poetic license, yet i think this is so far from reality in many souls and in many churches that it makes a mockery of speaking the truth in our heart.

And I often wonder what matter of conscience some writers of modern songs have in the light of their claims for themselves.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (Matthew 12:36)

Let all that is within me cry glory. "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name." (Psalms 103:1)

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing :

3. O to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let that grace now like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.

This description of the heart of the regenerate (by an old Anglican: J. C. RYLE - 1816-1900) is quite good. ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?

6 posted on 09/12/2014 4:19:34 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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Catholics have a difficult time distinguishing between spiritual and carnal. Most times I don’t think they have a clue or inkling.


24 posted on 09/12/2014 8:58:16 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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