Pages 93 - 94 – Poem “They’re dear to God”

Pages 93 - 94 – Poem “They’re dear to God”

They’re dear to God
“Be ye followers of God as dear children” Eph 5:1

Oh that when Christians meet and part,
These words were graved on every heart,
They’re dear to God!
However wilful and unwise,
We’ll look on them with reverent eyes,
They’re dear to God!
Oh, wonder! To the Eternal One
Dear as his own Beloved Son;
Dearer to Jesus than His blood,
Dear, as the Spirits fixed abode:
Yes, dear to God!

When tempted to give pain for pain,
How would this thought our words restrain
They’re dear to God!
When truth couples us to contend
What love with all our strife should blend,
They’re dear to God!
When they would shun the pilgrims lot,
For this vain world. Forsake them not,
But win them back with love and prayer
They never can be happy there,
If dear to God.

Oh, how return a brothers blow,
The heart whose harshness wounds thee so,
Is dear to God,
Oh, who beneath the cross can stand,
And then from one hold back the hand
Dear to our God.
How with rough words can we conflict
Knowing each pang our words inflict,
Touches the heart once pierced for us,
The hearts we wring and torture thus
Are dear to God.

For is there here us strength in love
The love that knits in joy above,
All dear to God,
By the same woes and toils opprest,
We lean upon One faithful breast,
And hasten to the same repose;
How bear, or do enough for those
So dear to God?

For is there here us strength in love
The love that knits in joy above, all dear to God,
By the same woes and toils opprest,
We lean upon One faithful breast,
And hasten to the same repose;
How bear, or do enough for those
So dear to God?