A beautiful hymn on the Lord's Supper

 

Charles Wes­ley, Hymns on the Lord’s Sup­per 1745, num­ber 57.

Music: Bar­na­bas adapt­ed from the French Psal­ter, 1561

O the depth of love divine,

Th’unfathomable grace!

Who shall say how bread and wine

God into us conveys!

How the bread His flesh imparts,

How the wine transmits His blood,

Fills His faithful people’s hearts

With all the life of God!

Let the wisest mortals show

How we the grace receive;

Feeble elements bestow

A power not theirs to give.

Who explains the wondrous way,

How through these the virtue came?

These the virtue did convey,

Yet still remain the same.

How can spirits heavenward rise,

By earthly matter fed,

Drink herewith divine supplies

And eat immortal bread?

Ask the Father’s wisdom how:

Christ who did the means ordain;

Angels round our altars bow

To search it out, in vain.

Sure and real is the grace,

The manner be unknown;

Only meet us in Thy ways

And perfect us in one.

Let us taste the heavenly powers,

Lord, we ask for nothing more.

Thine to bless, ’tis only ours

To wonder and adore.

you'll never go back

I am not endorsing the film mentioned -- I have never seen it.

What is interesting is this touching thought I read on the web somewhere a while ago:

"I CAN'T GO BACK" 

"My  favorite film is the 1977 made-for-TV movie Jesus of Nazareth, and one of my favorite scenes shows Simon Peter late at night, second-guessing himself about leaving his fishing and old way of life behind. Then his former nemesis — the recently converted tax collector Matthew — says the following:

"You know very well; you'll never go back." When Peter protests, Matthew replies, "No, you won't. Never. You'll never fish again. You'll never get drunk again. And you'll never live in Capernaum again. None of us will. You'll never be the same."

"My  big brother in the Lord, Tim Hart, and I love that scene and often tell each other, "You'll never go back" ... not because either of us has doubts, but because those words sum up the way we feel.

"Now, that conversation between Peter and Matthew isn't actually in the Bible, but the Apostle John does report on a time when many of Jesus' followers stopped following Him after He made a statement they found difficult to accept. Jesus then asked the 12 if they wanted to leave, too, and Peter said:

"Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God! (John 6:68-69, NET)."

Sloth

Richard Baxter in A Christian Directory, includes a section called “Directions against Idleness and Sloth.” He leads off his counsel to the idle sounding this alarm before anything else. He writes, “The first help against sloth is to be well acquainted with the greatness of the sin. For no wonder it be committed by them that think it is small. God himself reckons it with heinous sins. Idleness is a sin we can sleepily ease into. It is not a sin that we can sleepily ease out of. If we take laziness lightly, we will never repent of it with our whole heart.”

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