I'm sure it's a real joy to have
the privilege again of being with you, and
looking forward to the blessing of God's Word
by His Spirit while we're together this weekend.
Would you please turn with me tonight to
the book of Psalms chapter 139.
Psalm 139.
It has been so properly stated that the
book of Psalms has often been expressed as
being the book of experiences, and I'm sure
that no believer has been without many experiences
that are described in the words of the
psalmist.
Again and again we find, whatever mood, whatever
circumstance, whatever conflict and trial we may be
passing through, there is a psalm that expresses
the feeling of the heart and the experience
of the soul.
We turn tonight and read in Psalm 139
verse 17 and 18.
The words of the psalmist saying in the
midst of this psalm, how precious also are
thy thoughts unto me O God, how great
is the sum of them.
If I should count them they are more
in number than the sand.
When I awake I am still with thee.
Now if you were to read the psalm
through, you would find preceding the verses that
we have read that the psalmist speaks concerning
the great attributes of God which are sometimes
called his relative attributes.
In the opening words beginning at verse one,
going down through verse six, you will find
the psalmist declaring the omniscience of God.
He opens the psalm by saying, O Lord
thou hast searched me and known me, thou
knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou
understandest my thought afar off, and so on.
And he speaks particularly of the great omniscience
of God, meaning in brief words, God knows
everything, and he declares the complete knowledge of
a God who knows all things.
Then he follows to speak of God's omnipresence.
He declares beginning at verse seven, going down
through verse twelve, he declares the omnipresence of
God.
No matter where he might be, God is
present.
No matter where he may go, God is
there.
He mentions particularly some strange words, as you
could hear him say in verse eight, if
I ascend up into heaven, thou art there,
and if I make my bed in hell,
even there behold thou art.
And it may seem strange that the omnipresence
of God can be consciously known itself, either
in heaven, we can understand that, but also
in hell.
But there is a verse in the book
of Revelation, chapter 14 and verse 11, that
declares that in that day of judgment that
the worshipers of the beast will be in
that place of eternal torment, where they have
no rest day nor night, and that even
there they will be conscious of the presence
of holy angels, and conscious of the presence
of the Lamb, that everyone who died to
redeem them, there will be the consciousness of
his presence.
One can recognize, though one can never explain
it, the revelation of the fact that God
is everywhere.
Many years ago, I recall reading there was
a certain infidel who, when he was taken
sick and found himself confined in bed, he
wrote a motto that all who came to
visit him might see on the foot of
his bed these words, God is nowhere.
One day there came into his room a
lady to visit him with her little child,
and the infidel said to the little child,
little girl can you read those words right
at the foot of my bed?
She looked at those words and then she
began to say, God is now here.
Well she couldn't think of anything else but
what it would mean then, but how true
it is.
Then the third thing, God is not only
omnipresent, but God is omnipotent, for beginning as
you have it in verse 14 and on,
or even verse 13 and down through verse
16, you have the omnipotence of God revealed.
As one can tell the omnipotence of God,
one is properly stated that if you could
take the stars that are in the Milky
Way, possibly totaling 18 million in number, every
one of them weighing perhaps a million times
more than this little earth of ours, and
if you were able to place those stars
in an adequate stack, God would be able
to lift and move them with his finger
as though they were but a grain of
sand.
The omnipotence of God is beyond our comprehension.
Likewise, he's omnipresent, likewise he's omniscient, but will
you note something?
These great attributes of God, great as they
may be and are, are incomparable to what
you read in verse 17 and 18, for
as you find the opening words of verse
17, the psalmist says, "'How precious also are
thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more
in number than the sand.
When I awake, I am still with thee."
Will you note the word also, indicating in
addition to the omniscience, the omnipresence, and the
omnipotence of God, the psalmist emphasizes here is
something else, and what he reveals is the
subject I would like to bring before you
tonight from these words.
He reveals the infinite heart of God.
God's omnipotence is great as well as his
omnipresence, as well as his omnipotence, but God's
heart is greater still.
The infinite greatness of the heart of God,
who can tell?
But the psalmist declares it in these words,
"'How precious also are thy thoughts unto me,
O God!' Now, when any thoughts are revealed,
they come from the heart.
As he thinketh in his heart, so is
he," wrote the wise man in the book
of Proverbs, "'for thought they come from the
heart.'" And how we can acknowledge, and do
acknowledge, that whenever there is a thought, it
springs from the heart, and the psalmist declares
in these words the thoughts of God that
come from his infinite heart.
But note three things particularly.
First note, he mentions their incomparable value.
He uses the word, "'How precious also are
thy thoughts unto me, O God!' Their incomparable
value.
Precious, precious, precious.
I'm sure that you and I would never
say to God what we sometimes say to
each other, "'A penny for your thoughts!' and
sometimes our thoughts are not even worth a
penny.
But the Spirit of God, through the psalmist,
declares the incomparable value of God's thoughts.
Precious!
And, my beloved, if you and I could
only know and understand some of the divine
thoughts in the heart of God, every one
of them can be termed in their value,
precious beyond human comprehension.
Then there's a second thing concerning those thoughts
coming from his heart.
Not only their incomparable value, but their inconceivable
direction.
Notice what he says, "'How precious also are
thy thoughts' in what direction?
"'Unto me, O God!' Beloved, this is a
stupendous revelation, that the thoughts of God's heart
are unto you and me.
"'Unto me, O God!' One wrote these lovely
little words that I value.
"'How thou canst think so well of me,
and be that God thou art, is darkness
to my intellect, but sunshine to my heart.
I do recognize the inconceivable direction of God's
thoughts, as the psalmist declared in another place,
Psalm 40 verse 17, "'Though I am poor
and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me.'
Well, one can be grateful for being an
individual who is called me, and to acknowledge
the direction of God's thoughts are unto me."
Then notice that thing, and that is their
incomprehensible number.
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more
in number than the sand.
Their incomprehensible number, that all that stand upon
the earth, every grain of sand, if all
could be computed and numbered, God says His
thoughts are even more in number than the
grains of sand.
I recall reading in one of the books
of Dr. Samuel Swain, a missionary to the
Muslims, that on one occasion he was walking
upon the seashore of the Arabian coast, on
the Arabian Sea, and he saw a strange
sight, an old Aram who was sitting in
the sand, and playing with the sand, lifting
it up in his hand, and letting it
flow through his fingers.
And, again and again, like a child, he
was lifting the sand up and letting it
go through his fingers over and over.
He thought it was strange to see an
old man doing such a thing, and he
came near to him and said, "'What are
you doing?' The old man looked up and
said, "'Leave me alone, I'm thinking.'" Then the
missionary said, "'What are you thinking of?' Then
answered the old Aram, "'I'm thinking of eternity.'"
Then the missionary was more interested and asked,
"'What is eternity?' The old Aram said, "'What
is eternity?
Why, if a bird could take one grain
of sand away from the earth one grain
a year, when he would have finished, he
would only just be beginning eternity, for eternity
would just be commencing.'" Makes him a graphic
illustration, but eternity is measureless, and yet God
says, "'For all the grains of sand upon
this scene he has a thought that is
precious toward you and me.'" Now, beloved, the
intellect of God is beyond our comprehension.
How great is the sum of those thoughts?
And, if we should be able to count
them, they are more in number than the
sand.
But, oh my beloved, those thoughts of God
are the precious toward you and precious toward
me.
Someday we'll be exploring those thoughts in eternity
forever, and enjoying that.
But, I'd like you to enjoy with me
tonight five of those precious grains of God's
thoughts toward you and me.
The psalmist in this great book has written
five occasions beside this scripture that we have
read, and used the word precious that conveys
the thoughts of God's heart toward us.
May I refer, first of all, to the
72nd Psalm, Psalm 72.
I would like to read verse 13 and
14.
Just a little background concerning the psalm, as
many of you may know, she's one of
the psalms that is called a messianic psalm.
So, it's a psalm that was prayed by
David for his son Solomon when he came
to the throne.
David prayed for the reign of Solomon.
Far greater than the psalm declares, the prayers
of David for Solomon can be recognized.
The prayer of the psalmist by the spirit
for the messianic reign of the Lord Jesus,
when he will be king of kings, and
Lord of lords over the earth.
But, in verse 13 and 14, there is
a characteristic presentation of our blessed Lord Jesus
towards the poor and the needy.
If you note verse 13 and 14, he
shall spare the poor and the needy, and
shall save the souls of the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and
violence, and precious shall their blood be in
his sight.
Note the last words of verse 14, and
precious shall their blood be in his sight.
We shall have the poor and needy with
us until Jesus comes in his glory.
We shall have violence and disdain in the
world until he comes and sets up his
eternal kingdom.
But, here is a statement that indicates and
conveys the heart of God toward humanity.
He values human life.
May I express it this way?
How precious also are thy thoughts of the
meal God, and let them personally be applied
to my heart.
First, here in the psalm that we have
just read, chapter 72 verse 14, he values
my life.
Precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Human life is valued by God.
Human life is of great value to the
heart of God.
From the Old Testament scriptures, it was very
evident that when blood was shed, and man's
blood was poured out upon the earth, God
required that it should be avenged, and God
required that that blood should not be less
exposed, but covered over.
And God values human life.
Man's inhumanity demand will someday cease, praise God.
And when the Lord Jesus comes, he will
manifest that compassion and grace for the need
of mankind.
For precious shall their blood be in his
sight.
And, oh may I say, every man, woman,
boy and girl is valued by God in
their human existence.
Go with me to psalm 49, please.
Briefly, but quickly, let's look at psalm 49,
and recognize another value that God places upon
me.
Chapter 49, may I read verse six and
seven, and part of verse eight?
They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches, none
of them can by any means redeem his
brother, and give to God, nor give to
God a ransom for him.
For the redemption of their soul is precious.
God not only values my soul, God my
life, but God values my soul.
And here we find the same word of
incomparable value used to describe his value of
the soul.
The redemption of their soul is precious.
Now, look the infinite cost of this redemption
for the soul.
It can never be bought by silver and
gold.
For they that trust in their wealth, and
boast in the multitude of their riches, none
of them can by any means redeem his
brother, or give to God a ransom for
him.
Many years ago, as I met a friend
in the town I once lived in, he
said to me, Mr. Graham, oh did you
read the paper this morning?
I said, well Mr. Lawrence, by glance at
the headline, what were you thinking of?
He said, did you know that Will Rogers,
the noted humorist, died yes I did.
I said, I noticed that.
He said, Mr. Graham, oh he must be
in heaven, and I looked at him and
said, well Mr. Lawrence, did you know him,
that you could say such a thing?
No, he said, I didn't know him, but
he said, I read in the paper that
when he died he left a half a
million dollars for the blessing and use of
humanity in a humanitarian project.
Well, I looked at my friend, I said,
well Mr. Lawrence, do you have a half
a million dollars to leave?
I don't.
I said, if that's the way to heaven,
I'm drunk, and you too I wouldn't think,
and I told him, I said, I knew
a man that gave away a hundred million
dollars during his lifetime, and he left only
twenty million dollars, but I'm afraid he went
to hell, for he had no confidence nor
belief in the hereafter.
My beloved, if God values my life, he
values my soul in a greater way.
The redemption of their soul is precious, and
the words of Peter are so appropriate, as
he wrote in 1 Peter 1 verse 18
and 19, for ye know ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and
gold, but with the precious blood of Christ
as of a lamb, without blemish, and without
loss.
My beloved, I'm sure that all of us
say, by grace, we'll say with the poet,
precious, precious blood of Jesus, shed on Calvary,
shed for rebels, shed for sinners, shed for
me, redeemed by the precious blood of Christ.
For what shall it profit a man if
he gains the whole world, and lose his
own soul?
My beloved, God's value of my soul, if
I could ever measure it, I must only
attempt to measure it by that death of
his beloved son upon the cross of Calvary.
For God's soul of the world, that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
The value of my soul, my beloved, your
soul and mine, must have been of such
infinite and eternal value to God that he
gave his only begotten son.
Hallelujah!
Precious!
My soul is to God.
Go with me to Psalm 133.
I'm taking them in their moral order, as
we mentioned them, in their proper spiritual order
of blessings and experience.
Psalm 133, where we have the psalmist singing
in the whole psalm these precious words, only
three verses in number, Behold how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity.
It is like the precious ointment upon the
head that ran down upon the beard, even
Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts
of his garments, as the dew of Nerman,
and as the dew that descended upon the
mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded
the blessing, even life forevermore.
May I give you the setting of the
psalm?
You will find this coming next to the
last psalm in a group of psalms that
are called psalms of degrees, or the psalms
of ascent, beginning with 120 and going through
Psalm 134.
It was the custom of the pilgrims, the
Jewish pilgrims, when they rendered their path to
Jerusalem upon their annual feast day, they would
sing these psalms as they rendered their way
up to Jerusalem.
It was also the custom of the priests,
the Levites, when they ascended the temple steps
to go toward the altar in the courts
of the Lord, they too would sing these
psalms of ascent.
Now, when you read the psalms through, you
will find them ascending in their truth and
in their glory higher and higher, until you
come to the closing two, 133 and 134.
Dispensationally, they describe the blessing of Israel when
under the reign of their Messiah they will
be enjoying their land, their nation, and their
kingdom, and that millennial reign of their blessed,
blessed king.
And it crowns the glory of that day
when they will be found in happy, united
fellowship of the people redeemed around their king
in the glory of his kingdom.
Now, there's another meaning that we could imply,
but oh it reminds us, as you see
this psalm reminding us, that that great day
of Pentecost went from heaven above.
There was poured out the Holy Spirit by
the risen, glorified Lord upon the believers below,
and he formed the one body of Christ
which is the church.
And in rich profusion, the Spirit of God
was poured out from heaven above to form
the one body to dwell in the believer,
and to dwell with the believers until the
dispensation is finished.
That's another application that I like to think
of.
You can read a bit in Revelation chapter
21, the first five verses, when in that
new creation God will be dwelling together with
his redeemed creation, and in that day God
will be their God, and they shall be
his people in happy unity forevermore in that
eternal scene.
But, it does have an application even in
our day.
When I find that he values my faith,
and Christ becomes my savior, then I am
God immediately.
He's in the fellowship of his people, and
in fellowship with his people, in God's hands,
I should dwell together with them in unity.
How good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity, and in
that fellowship that God is trying his people
to enjoy, when he sees the unity, when
he recognizes how good and how pleasant that
fellowship is, that it's like the precious anointing
oil that was poured on the head of
Aaron that ran down his beard unto the
thirst of Esau, and that it's a sweet
fragrance and aroma that came to the heart
of God in satisfaction, all speaking to him,
which we have no time to answer into
tonight, but all speaking to him of the
fragrance of Christ.
May I present my brother with this?
God not only values my life, God not
only values my soul, God values my fellowship
with his people.
You know there's one thing about fellowshipping with
God's people.
You know who is it that enjoys bringing
his people together?
The Lord himself.
Days of Malachi, as he described them in
Malachi 3 verse 16, days when the remnant's
testimony was small, declension and moral declension together
with spiritual declension was great, then they that
hear the Lord say often one to another,
and the Lord heard, and often they stood
nearer to listen to them, that they can
heard of his name, and the book of
remembrance was written before him.
And my brother, may I say, there is
one person who values the fellowship of God's
people more than any other, God himself, and
the blessed Lord Jesus.
God values my fellowship.
He places me in fellowship with every child
of God.
He places me in fellowship with his people,
and my beloved, let you and I realize
God values that fellowship, and he wants that
fragrance of it to be like a precious
ointment that was on the head of Aaron.
I know I said I wish I could
have smelled him, but he must have been
the sweetest smelling man that perhaps has ever
been on the earth, and it doesn't always
be the sweetest eating.
In that respect, but the joy of realizing
God values the fellowship of his people, and
when he sees it as he wants it
to be, it's precious, precious, precious.
You know I'm glad I'm saying, more than
that, I'm glad I belong to the people
of God, the best people on the earth.
What did you say?
The best people on the earth, God's redeemed
people, and with what joy they say, you
and I redeemed by the precious mother's sight,
we belong to them.
Members of his body, members of the family
of God, and oh how the father delights
when he can indeed take into his heart
the fragrance of the fellowship of saints.
That's one good reason, y'all, to come
to Parker Park.
You'll smell better.
Okay, but what a joy to realize the
preciousness of the fragrance of such fellowship.
He values it.
Praise the Lord, I'm glad he's glad I'm
here.
What a joy to realize it's God that
values his people when they come together.
Hallelujah!
I don't know what value the rest of
them have put on us, but never mind.
The one who values it the most is
the Lord himself.
Let's go on, Psalm 126.
Psalm 126.
Let me read the last two verses.
They that go in tears shall reap in
joy.
We that go with thoughts and weepers bearing
precious seeds and shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing bring into seed with him.
He not only values my life, my soul,
my fellowship, but he values my service.
You have the picture of the man sowing
seeds, the seed sower.
He may sow in tears, but he reaps
in joy.
He goes forth and weeps, but he's carrying
precious seed, and he shall doubtless come again
rejoicing, bringing his sheep with him.
He values my service, all the joy of
recognizing in the sight of God whatever service
we render as we carry this precious seed
basket of his word, and sow the seed
of the good word of God the word
is the good seed, the field is the
world, and you and I in harmony with
our Lord Jesus and in fellowship with him
can sow it.
We used to sing a little chorus when
I was young that said sow, sow, sow,
you may not see it grow scatter seeds
of fresh fruit everywhere you go sow, sow,
sow, and God will fruit thee so, and
it will keep your heart aglow, sow, sow,
sow, oh beloved you never know.
You know I never forget an incident comes
to my heart.
Many years ago when first moving in the
south, and that's 36 years ago, I recall
a circus came to the town where I
lived, and it's the last time I ever
remembered seeing and knowing of a circus parade
that was usually held before they had the
circus.
I thought to myself now that would be
a good opportunity to get tracks away, so
I fortified myself with hundreds of tracks.
I walked along the parade line of that
circus parade all through that town, and it
was a long, it was a long way
to go, but the crowds were there, and
I gave tracks out.
In the afternoon, I went near the circus
ground, moved around in the in the crowd,
and gave many away.
I went back at night again, and I
recall going home that night, and my back
ached, and well-minded ache, for I had
been going from at least nine o'clock
in the morning till 10 30 at night,
and I said Lord I hope something's been
done.
A few weeks later, I had the privilege
of having a little place at the county
fair, and the privilege of giving testaments, bible,
and distributing tracks, and I think we must
have given about 10 to 12,000 tracks
away that week.
The end of the week, the common citizens
of the town asked that they could have
the fair and the exhibits kept for another
week, and it was granted.
So, I thought I'll do my best and
stay for another week if I can, at
least part of the time.
One day, as I was standing in the
booth where I was, I saw an old
colored man coming down with five little pickaninnies
tagging after him, and I could see they
were begging him for money.
So, when he came to me, he said
maybe this gentleman has change for a quarter.
So, I said sure I'll give you change.
So, I gave him change for a quarter,
and he gave the youngster the dime and
said run away now, I want to talk
to this gentleman.
And he looked up at me, he said
brother, he said I'd know you anywhere.
He said you're the man that was giving
them tickets away at the big show the
other week, and he said you gave me
one of them tickets.
And he said I looked at it, and
I read it, and when I read it
I thought that's just what my people need.
And he said brother, I looked for you
all over, and I couldn't find you anywhere,
because I was moving all around the place.
But he said you know I picked up
every one of them tickets I could find
on the ground.
I said Lord, I wish you'd follow me
everywhere.
And then he said you know what brother,
he said one night my aunt, she said
to me she ran a boarding house, and
she had a man over there that was
dying, and he was afraid to die.
Could I come over and help him?
So he said brother, I went over there,
sure enough he said that man was scared,
he was dying, and he was afraid to
die.
And I looked at him, I looked down
at him, and said I'll tell you what
I done.
He said the other night, he said the
man gave me something at the big show,
some tickets, I don't know who the man
was, he said I suppose he went on
with the show, he actually said.
But he said I got two of them
tickets left, and he said I took them
out brother, out of my pocket, and I
said I'm going to read them to you,
and then when I read them, you believe
them, and you'll die happy.
Then he said brother, before I left, I
gave them to him.
I said you read them, and if you
read them, and if you believe them, you'll
die happy.
And he looked up at me with a
big grin, he said brother, that man died
happy, and I said thank you Lord for
the package, it was worth it.
Now we don't always see that truth, the
harvest day is still ahead, and the day
will come when he'll show how much he's
valued our service.
And like the old hymn says, I don't
know when we sang it last, bringing in
the sheaves, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in
the sheaves.
My beloved, there's no other person values what
you do for him in his service than
the Lord himself.
Hallelujah.
Now I'm going to tell you, you've got
no idea how much he values what he
does for you, what you do for him.
I want he, I may do for him
too.
He values my service, and he values yours.
One more text, Psalm 116.
Psalm 116, and I'm sure you notice the
happy sequence of these precious truths.
He not only values my life, he not
only values my soul, he not only values
my fellowship, he not only values my service,
but here in these words are words that
no other one but God could ever write.
Verse 15, Psalm 116.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints.
You will never find anyone upon the earth
that will write these words in an obituary
column of the newspaper, but these words have
been written of every believer.
These words are written for every saint that
passes through the valley of the shadow of
death to go and be with the Lord
which is far better.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints.
He values my death.
Hallelujah!
Somebody's going to value me when I die.
And that will be the Lord himself.
Oh, the joy of being, you know, it's
a strange thing, but it's human.
We only value things that live.
God says, I value my people even if
they're dead.
No wonder he wrote in Revelation, happy are
the dead which die in the Lord.
The joy of realizing the value he places
upon my death.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints.
May I point out to you, I'm sure
you see it, only five grains of sand,
but I'm sure you recognize how in beautiful
sequence he covers my life.
He values my life, he values my soul,
redeeming me through the precious blood of his
Son.
He values my fellowship with his people, he
values my service that I do for him,
and he values when the end of that
service is reached, and I pass through the
shadow of death to be in his presence
forever.
He values my death.
I'm precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints.
From beginning to the end, I'm precious to
him.
Hallelujah!
I'm glad I'm worth something to somebody, and
particularly to him.
One more text and I'm closing.
The book of Revelation, please.
I like the thought that I found in
the book of Revelation, chapter 21.
Let me read verse 10 and 11.
It's a description of that glorious city, the
new Jerusalem, when the bride of our Lord
Jesus will be seen in her glory eternal.
Let me just read verse 10 and 11.
And he carried me away in the spirit
to a great and high mountain, and showed
me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God, having the glory
of God, and her light was like unto
a stone, and most precious, even like a
jasper stone, clear as crystal.
My beloved, listen.
I'm precious in life.
I'm precious in my soul to him.
I'm precious in my Christian fellowship to him,
and so are you.
I shall be precious in my service, and
so will you, as we serve him.
We shall be precious to him in death,
but may I suggest to you, when we
get of the glory, we're going to be
most precious.
Most precious.
Having the glory of God, and in that
glory of day, shining with the glory of
God, out of the clay of earth, he
will have redeemed us, to present us to
himself, to be forever to him, not only
precious, but, thank God, most precious.
Hallelujah!
I must say again, how thou can think
so well of me, and be the God
thou art, is darkness to my intellect, but
is sunshine to my heart.
May God bless his words, for his name's
sake.
Amen.
Shall we close in a word of prayer?
Blessed Father, we lift our hearts to thee
with gratitude.
Father, we're amazed, we're overwhelmed, when we recognize
the dust that we are.
Not only the dust that we are by
nature, but when we recognize and acknowledge our
unworthiness as sinners, who have proved their unworthiness
in rebelling against thee, that in the greatness
of thy grace, and the matchless character of
thy love, thine infinite heart has gone out
to us.
With the silence we say, how precious also
are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should help them, they are more
in number than the sand.
And then, Lord, when the moment come, we
shall wake in glory.
When I awake, I'm still with thee, and
Lord, in that day we'll be most precious.
Father, may we not say in closing, unto
you that believe he is precious, for it's
only because of thy precious love, these truths
have ever become our blessed portion, and shall
be forever.
We thank thee.
May we go our way tonight saying, in
the words of the poet, for he is
so precious to me.
Take heaven below, my Jesus to know, for
he is so precious to me.
We ask it in his adorable name, giving
thanks as we separate.
Amen.