Welcome to Day 4 of Chapter 5 from Arise & Shine’s Part 7. Today, Bettie and Anna are together bringing forward the fourth free will offering of the Stone Tablets: Revealing the Covenant and Testimony of Jesus (the Word fulfilled). This is based on a poem that Bettie first shared at the very beginning of our book – Our Holy Dwelling Place. Now, Anna has rewritten it with Bettie’s blessing to reflect the transformation God has brought about in both their hearts since then.
Your Holy Home
You, the Holy God
Made a Holy decree:
Come out from among them,
And be Holy,
Even as I am Holy.
A Holy Temple
You designed for the meeting
Between Yourself and men
The cloud descended
Your Glory filled the rooms.
But Your commands
And Your Precepts
Left the people bewildered
You always knew
The holiness required
Could never be met.
So, just as You promised
Through Your prophet Isaiah
You stepped in
The Holy One Yourself
Opening the way
You took the debt
Upon Yourself.
Our fellowship once lost
In You is regained
A purity unknown
Now freely given
For all to receive.
Your Kingdom
Brought low
To all
We, Your children
Once shrouded
In darkness
Now see the light.
Where sin and destruction
Once walked hand in hand
Your mercy
Now washes us clean
Making us new.
Inner courts of the Temple
Now live in our heart
As our outer man groans
And waits for the time
When we shall ALL be One.
We hear You call
"Come and see
What you never could do
I’ve brought to you
A perfection so true.
"You are My own
Where I love to dwell
Behold My Son
Now reflected in you
Holy and pure in His blood
You are My gift
That never stops giving."
How can it be
That those such as we
Once covered in shame
Our weakness and sin hiding
Are now daily rejoicing
In Your
Fountains of grace
Washed and made clean
The joy of the LORD
Now daily our strength?
How can it be
That we hear You now
Call out to us all
"Arise and shine
My Beloved
I am yours
And you are Mine."?
How can it be?
Because
You make us holy
You paid the price
Making every part
Of our broken
Heart’s dwelling
Mended and whole:
Now Your Holy Home!
Isaiah 7:14 (ESV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
[Immanuel meaning: God with us]
Papa: here is our offering of thanks. No words can describe the joy in our hearts You have brought us. Oh how we praise You and honor You and glorify You LORD. Let Your people praise us with You! Praise You, Jesus!!!
Shalom Aleh 