HUMBLED AND PRESERVED FOR HEAVEN

"Come let us praise the Living God, joyfully sing to our Saviour"

I have gifted the youths again this year with the song “Humbled and Preserved for Heaven” for their camp running under the theme To Heaven With You. 

The song comes from my own experience, sweet meditation and reflections on my walk with the Lord Jesus and my God who gives me “songs in the night”. I am simply amazed and humbled! 

1. Unreserved is your Love O Lord

Of simply letting me be myself!

It humbles me, it humbles me  

Preserved for heaven so   

It humbles me, it humbles me    

With Christ I’ll get there!

2. On my own, I would dare not pray

That you forgive and keep from sin

3. In and of self no merit, none

Learning that grace alone befits, preserves

4. Guide me through good and misfortune

Leading me, so this pledge I have

5. I have disinterest in the world         

By sense of your abiding presence

6. All my attainments Lord you bless

Sinful pride is no way to go!

7. Deep in my soul upheld by Truth 

Reflecting, I love that I’m born of you!

It goes to the tune of the song quoted above from Songs of the Kingdom (SOK)
Be blessed!

WHAT'S IN A FLOWER:

Anniversaries: Important or not? Well, some people dearly appreciate when you remember theirs and wish them the best of God’s blessings. Remembering your own and planning it could best change and color life or it ebbs with usual numbness.

Our anniversary made me reflect on how the ending year and years passed had been. What did and have I and my wife become, where are we spiritually, socially (romantically as well) and economically? 

It also offered me an opportunity to look ahead in terms of plans and aspirations and what God says.

Clear to me has been the need to deeply and wisely love my wife and never to mind if she does not get enough of my love! This I am learning.

So as I thought of appreciating her through a bunch of roses and other plans, I did not want it to be a mere romantic necessity. 

 I thank God for enabling to zero in on a rose flower in the midst of a spinning mind and world around me produce the verse “What’s in A Flower”. 

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