The Greatest Joy
There is no greater Joy than that that comes from knowing God
From knowing every step we take upon this earthly sod
Is well within His keeping from the morning when we rise
Until we lay ourselves to rest and daylight finally dies
That joy that meets us in His grace when waking from our sleep
That gives us an assurance that each step of ours He'll keep
Within the precincts of His love where ere our path may lead
If conscientiously we live His love and law to heed
For though we may not see Him and at times we chance to doubt
We've every reason in this world to trust He'll help us out
Of every situation that may lead to our demise
If we by faith will focus on the love in Jesus' eyes
That love that flows through stories that we find within His Word
That from our youth if fortunate from childhood we have heard
Or if not then from listening to what He's sharing now
We see God's love in sacrifice when Jesus taught us how
To take each day in promise as a gift that comes from Him
To everyone who longs to have His Spirit dwell in them
Who longs for home in heaven where the sinner never dies
For sin will never rise again up there beyond the skies
Or ever in this universe when God makes all things new
Accomplishing the final work He started here to do
As through His chosen people those who focused on His Word
No sentiment of selfishness will ever there be heard
Because each soul will love Him Who first loved them most of all
From long before the angels knew that we would ever fall
And made us fully knowing of the Price He'd have to pay
That would leave scars upon Him that would never go away
For reasons we will ever and forever without end
Try earnestly to study as we try to comprehend
How He so purely perfect could love us so weak and frail
And choose to place in us His joy and life that will not fail
But will through endless ages just grow stronger everyday
In those who laid the world aside to walk the narrow Way
Who wanted nothing more than to be known as those who tried
To represent the perfect love for which our Savour died
John 15:1-12; James 4:5-10; John 17:20-26
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