Oh! the joy of the salvation
We possess around the throne!
Countless thoughts of admiration,
Mingling, leave that joy but one.

Hark! Ten thousand voices crying
"Lamb of God!" with one accord;
Thousand thousand saints replying -
Bursts at once the echoing chord.

Long, with free and glad devotion,
Universal praise prevails;
Till, blest fruit of deep emotion,
Voice by voice in silence fails.

Now, in wondrous adoration
Dwelling on His matchless love,
Swayed with power of that salvation,
Silence fills the courts above.

Then, their richest thoughts unfolding,
Each to each, with joy divine
Heavenly converse blissful holding,
Tells how bright His glories shine.

Some on God's high glories dwelling,
Brightly beaming in His face;
Some His first-born greatness telling -
Ordering all things in their place:

These - of Godhead's counsels deep
Him th'Accomplisher proclaim;
These - how Jesus' self could weep,
Of Godhead's love the Witness came.

All on love surpassing rest,
That clothed in flesh the great I AM;
Till, from one heart, divinely prest,
Bursts forth at length the loud exclaim.

Monkey Business

"So God created man in his own image…." Genesis 1:27

 

The monkeys one day had a big jamboree.

Their leader sat up in the tallest tree.

And said with a chuckle, "My good fellow Monk,

If you want a good laugh, just give ear to this junk.

Some teachers of men in a place called 'school'

Are training each youngster to grow up a fool.

The kids run wild and never get spanked.

If our babies did that, their tails would be yanked.

No well-mannered monkey dictates his elder,

Beats up the policeman or shoots at the teacher,

Poisons the baby, or kills with a gun,

And then laughs and says: 'We are just having fun!'

Monkeys, my friends, have respect for each other.

We hand out no sass to our father or mother.

The picture I've painted you'll agree is quite sad.

But listen, my brothers, I'm boiling mad.

For here's what they're taught- that miserable flunky,

That creature called man, was at one time a monkey!

An ape just like us, and what's more, if you please,

He claims that at one time he swung through the trees.

Fellow monkeys, I think this is going too far.

We don't envy their home, their wealth, or their car.

But when they will spread such a horrible rumor,

It's time for all monkeys to lose their good humor.

So, come, you must help me prepare a big sign,

Protesting that man's no descent of mine.

If evolution be true, then boys, we are sunk;

For I'd sooner be father to weasel or skunk."

No, my friend, man was originally created good-in God's image: but because of sin, his history has been that of "devolution rather than evolution.

"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God" Psalms 14:1

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" Acts 16:31

"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:" 2Corinthians 5:17