CHRIST ALONE

O God,

hy main plan, and the end of thy will,
is to make Christ glorious and beloved
in heaven
where he is now ascended,
where one day all the elect will behold his glory
and love and glorify him forever.
Though here I love him but little,
may this be my portion at last.
In this world thou hast given me a beginning,
one day it will be perfected in the realm above,
Thou hast helped me to see and know Christ,
though obscurity,
to take him, receive him,
to possess him, love him,
to bless him in my heart, mouth, life.
Let me study and stand for discipline,
and all the ways of worship,
out of love for Christ;
and to show my thankfulness;
to seek and know his will from love,
to hold it in love,
and daily to care for and keep this state of heart.
Thou had led me to place all my nature
and happiness
in oneness with Christ,
in having heart and mind centered only on him,
in being like him on communication good
to others;
This is my heaven on earth,
But I need the force, energy, impulses of they Spirit
to carry me on the way to my Jerusalem.
Here, it is my duty
to be as Christ in this world,
to do what he would do,
to live as he would live,
to walk in love and meekness;
then would he be known,
then would I have peace in death.

—from The Valley of Vision, Arthur Bennett, editor (Banner of Truth Trust, 2002).

salme 138 (Geneva Bible)
A Psalme of Dauid.

1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: euen before the gods will I praise thee.
2 I will worship toward thine holy Temple and praise thy Name, because of thy louing kindenesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy Name aboue all things by thy word.
3 When I called, then thou heardest me, and hast encreased strength in my soule.
4 All the Kings of the earth shal praise thee, O Lorde: for they haue heard the wordes of thy mouth.
5 And they shall sing of the wayes of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great.
6 For the Lord is high: yet he beholdeth the lowly, but the proude he knoweth afarre off.
7 Though I walke in the middes of trouble, yet wilt thou reuiue me: thou wilt stretch foorth thine hand vpon the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall saue me.
8 The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lorde, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.

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