A Sweet Comfort to My Soul

I think I might be the worst blogger known to man. But I’m trying, and while this post will have no relation to my intended series of posts on the local church, I felt that it would be best to share a recent sweet comfort to my soul.

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong a perfect plea
A great High Priest who’s name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in Heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart

When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end of all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free
For God the just is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me

Behold Him there the Risen Lamb
My perfect spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I AM
The king of glory and of grace
One in Himself I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ my Savior and my God

I absolutely adore this hymn. In this hymn I am reminded time and time again of my security before Christ. It serves as a sweet testimony to the truth that those who follow Christ are His own. We are His sheep, and He is our good shepherd. He knows His own, and His own know Him (John 10). And we are eternally secure. Though we may fail, though Satan whispers and reveals our greatest sins that we would despair of our own security, we have a faithful Christ who teaches us that:

“… In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39

soli Deo gloria.