Thou hidden source of calm repose,
Thou all sufficient love divine,
My help and refuge from my foes,
And joy and everlasting love;
To me with Thy dear Name are given
Pardon and holiness and Heaven.
Jesus, my all in all Thou art,
My rest in toil, my ease in pain,
The healing of my broken heart,
In war my peace, in loss my gain,
My smile beneath the tyrant’s frown,
In shame my glory and my crown.
In want my plentiful supply,
In weakness my almighty power,
In bonds my perfect liberty,
My light in Satan’s darkest hour,
In grief my joy unspeakable,
My life in death, my Heaven in hell.
~Charles Wesley, 1749
My thoughts:
- He is a hidden source. Hidden. Unseen yet still there.
- To me, my very own self; He is calmness, all-sufficiency, help, and refuge.
- I am secure in Him. Today and for eternity. He will not -He can not– lose me, nor I Him.
- When He bestowed upon me the name of Christian, He also bestowed upon me His gifts of pardon, holiness, and an eternity in Heaven.
- Jesus is everything I need: rest, ease, healing, peace, gains, joys, glory, crown, full supply, power, liberty, light, life, and Heaven. He is everything, indeed.
- He will heal my broken heart — I don’t need anything but Him for my band-aid.
- I need no other glory and crown but Him to cover and reverse my shame.
- In my grief, He is yet my joy — when no other joys present themselves (and even when they do), He is the ultimate joy that will not get rid of the grief but will make the grief survivable.
- He is my life in death — in my own death, and in the deaths of my children. He is their life. And He keeps my life.
- Through the hellishness of earth, He is Heaven to me. He will bring me there. To meet with Him there. And until then, He gives me the hope of Heaven to survive the here & now.