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God’s Purpose For the Human Soul
[A poem by the author of this website]
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As Christmas time is drawing nigh, | |
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I thought to myself how nice it would be, | |
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To share some thoughts from the Most High, | |
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Which He has been pleased to give to me. | |
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Man in the garden, a temple fit, | |
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Gen 1,2 |
Could speak to God face to face. |
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His law in Adam’s subconscious was writ, | |
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Ex 25:21 |
As the same in the ark He did place. |
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For man it was natural to do God’s will, | |
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As natural as to do his own. | |
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Gen 3 |
But another stepped in, a serpent vile, |
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And in man he set up his throne. | |
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Rom 8:7 |
No longer ’twas natural, nor could he find how, |
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Rom 1,2 |
To seek his Maker, and at Love’s law bow. |
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Ps 51:5 |
But instead a law of sin and strife, |
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Jer 17:9 |
Became his only way of life. |
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And man would have been forever lost, | |
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Gen 3:15 |
Had not One stepped in to pay the cost. |
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SR p. 43 |
A Seed of Enmity to place, |
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To give Himself to man by grace. | |
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Eph 3:11 |
To fulfill the eternal purpose of God, |
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His tabernacle was spread. | |
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Jn 1:14 |
The Word was made flesh, among us abode, |
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Col 1:27 |
That in Man His glory might again be read. |
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Ed. p.36. |
In Him was fulfilled the symbol of, |
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Old Israel’s temple glorious. | |
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Gen. 3:15 |
In Him, the serpent bruised by love, |
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Phil 2:5-8. |
He left the Most Holy at His Father’s side, |
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DA p. 49, 117. |
Clothed matchless power divine, |
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Heb 3:14-18. |
With Mary’s weak will, mind and frame, |
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EW p. 152. |
Your fallen nature and mine. |
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He came to us as a little babe, | |
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Luke 2:52 |
From Joseph learned to work with wood. |
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While from His Father, He learned to make, | |
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Heb 5:8 |
A human character, perfect and good. |
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Table of shewbread |
Daily He fed on the Word of Love, |
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Candlestick |
The Spirit was His friend. |
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Altar of incense |
And prayer like incense rose above, |
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As hours with God He did spend. | |
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The laver |
Then, in the courtyard, He was baptized; |
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Repenting not His sin but mine. | |
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Calvary |
And, on the altar, the plan realized, |
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COL p. 307. |
Man wed in Him to the divine. |
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Now He comes without the gate, | |
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And takes me by the hand, | |
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Acts 14:27. |
Through faith which is the only door, |
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COL p. 112. |
With repentance joined by a band. |
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As soon as into the courtyard I step, | |
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Rev 19:8. |
By white linen I am surrounded. |
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1SM p. 394, 395. |
In Him, I then am all complete, |
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7BC p. 933. |
By His grace which to me has abounded. |
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But to the altar He next me leads, | |
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Rom 6:6. |
My self to be crucified. |
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*RH Mar. 9, 1889. |
It is only by helpless dependence on Him, |
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That this step may be realized. | |
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Titus 3:5. |
Then to the laver I’ll follow Him, |
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My sins to be washed away. | |
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Rev 8:3. |
I’ll eat the Bread, bask in Spirit’s light, |
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1SM p.344. |
My prayers combined with His merits each day. |
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And every day more fully realize, | |
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Eph 2:9. |
It is only His mercy which justifies. |
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2T p. 505. |
That as these steps each day I trace. |
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On His promise alone my faith I’ll place. | |
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But He has for me one grand step more, | |
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Dan 8:14. |
And in eighteen hundred and forty four. |
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Rev 10:7. |
He entered then the Most Holy Place, |
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Lev 16:30. |
To complete in me His work of grace. |
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Joel 2:12-17. |
And I must follow Him by faith, |
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Zeph 2:1-3. |
Afflict my soul, repent so deep, |
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Jer 17:1. |
Of that internal law of sin, |
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Rev 3:19. |
Which ever has caused my Lord to weep. |
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Isa 4:2-4. |
That He may once again within, |
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Mal 3:1-3. |
My heart forever cleansed from sin. |
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5T p. 472-476 |
His law, His glory, forever place, |
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1T p. 179-183. |
On my heart’s ark, amazing grace! |
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Rev 3:17. |
Oh friend, I plead that you may see, |
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Lev 16:29, 23:29, |
And join me in my soul’s affliction |
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Heb 10:19-23. |
That we might boldly enter in, |
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Heb 6:6. |
To forever end His crucifixion. |
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DA p. 300. |