Devotional for March 6

Today's cross: An interpretation in a mosaic style using glass shards by a local artist in                        St. Mawgan, Cornwall. Pastor Charles was assigned to a British-American command at the nearby             RAF St. Mawgan as a US Navy chaplain.

Charles Wesley

FATHER of omnipresent grace,

We seem agreed to seek Thy face;

But every soul assembled here,

Doth naked in Thy sight appear:

Thou know’st who only bows the knee;

And who in heart approaches thee.

Thy Spirit hath the diff’rence made

Betwixt the living and the dead!

Thou now dost into some inspire

The pure, benevolent desire:

O that e’en now Thy pow’rful call,

May quicken and convert us all.

The sinners suddenly convince,

O’erwhelmed beneath their load of sins;

Today, while it is called to-day,

Awake, and stir them up to pray;

Their dire captivity to own,

And from the iron furnace groan.

Then, then, acknowledge and set free

The people bought, O Lord, by thee;

The sheep for whom their Shepherd bled,

For whom we in Thy Spirit plead:

Let all in thee redemption find,

And not a soul be left behind.