Jesus, Our Soul's Delightful Choice
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We often sing songs of devotion, commitment, or love to God but fail to properly acknowledge that they are but dim sparks compared to the same devotion, commitment, and love that our intercessor, Jesus, was able to offer God in our place. As we sing this beautiful song, originally by Isaac Watts, we can confess along with the father of a demon-possessed boy in Mark 9:24, "I do believe; help my unbelief." The reality of our human condition is that when we approach God in worship, our joy is mixed with grief, our hopes are often fainting, and guilt and sorrows remain. These are caused by indwelling sin in our lives - and the basic thrust of sin is to worship the created rather than the creator. Believers in this condition who have been given new hearts and desires to worship the true God are miserable, and it is that very misery that God mercifully uses to point us back to the cross to rest our weary, sin-laden, efforts and proclaim along with Watts that it is only by God's grace that our faith is upheld.Lyrics | (Show Original Wordings) |
In You, believing we rejoice;
Yet still our joy is mixed with grief,
While faith contends with unbelief.
Your promises our hearts revive,
And keep our fainting hopes alive;
But guilt, and fears, and sorrows rise,
And hide the promise from our eyes.
Chorus:
Lord, make our dying spark a flame,
Reveal the glories of Your name;
And take our anxious doubts away
Like darkness banished by the day.
Oh let not flesh and Satan win
Amid the struggle of our sin;
Nor see our faith in ruins fall,
But hold it by Your gracious call.
Original words by Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Adapted by David L. Ward.
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