Daily Devotional

Presumption

How can our lost humanity
Engrossed in our iniquity
Perceive God in Divinity
At such a time as this

When we choose our profane attire
By which the world does us admire
The foolish ways that we aspire
To lose the grace that's His

Assuming He Who made all things
From Whom our very essence springs
Will overlook our worst failings
To give to us His bliss

When scripture tells us loud and clear
The sinfulness that we've done here
Cost Him the Price He paid most Dear
To help us not to miss

The joyfulness that He has planned
Established by His own command
Upon His Law whereon we stand
When we ourselves dismiss

Our self-reliant evil way
For which the Lord of glory paid
When He upon that cross did stay
To take the greatest risk

Because of love that would not fail
That would not stop though sore assailed
Though by the chosen was regaled
For all the signs they missed

That should have cut them to the core
As hanging there them to restore
Was Sacrifice and so much more
That brings us now to this

Will we who once again are here
Embrace His grace or bow in fear
As His return is drawing near
And all of Heaven miss

Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Joshua 24:14-15