The Giver of Life

Christ Jesus said, Seek out,
pursue food that sustains
which does not spoil, endures:
so heed his wondrous claims:
  ‘I am the bread of life’, he said,
for I give life to souls now dead –
eternal life, your souls refreshed and fed.

The barren heart revived
for by the Spirit drenched:
fruit grows, life’s Source made known,
soul’s hunger, thirst is quenched.
  ‘I am the bread of life’, he said,
  for I give life to souls now dead –
  eternal life, your souls refreshed and fed.

(see John 6:35 etc)

Tune: 6666 8810 eg ‘Gospel grace’ by J McGranahan

Amazing Grace!

Grace, powerful, undeserved:
the favour, gifts of God –
though all we do he has observed,
our every word has heard,
he’s made a way of grace
and now he can embrace
repentant ones who truly come
asking he will atone
their sins by Christ’s spilt blood,
receiving grace from God:
listen! to all he says, believe
and life and grace receive.

Then may grace always lead us,
adoption undeserved –
by grace his teaching feed us,
be powerfully preserved.
He is the Gardener
who makes us holier,
he prunes away those things
those foolish harmful sins
by which we’ve been deceived,
his holy love have grieved:
listen! to all he says, believe
and life and grace receive.

Jesus said “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

Tune: SMx3

Fit to meet the King

No other way to God
if Jesus is refused;
God has provided him as such,
and so if he’s abused,
there is no other way
that we can be made fit
to come to One so holy, pure
dressed in a clean outfit.

To meet a king you should
be tidy, clean, polite:
to meet the universe’s King
your life must be made right.
But that means all your past
that’s wrong must be wiped clean,
and gain new attitude of heart
where selfishness has been.

But only God, as Christ
could die to clear our guilt,
and give us life that loves his ways –
all through his own blood spilt.
No other route to God –
kind Jesus is the Way!
so turn to him for cleansing, life
repent and humbly pray.
Tune: DSM eg Diademata tune of ‘Crown him with many crowns’ by G Elvey