Thy Greatest Glory Be Thy Love Poured Out On Calvary
By Effie Darlene Barba
How is it Lord thy Glory Be
Enlarged, displayed at Calvary
Humbly there you bowed your head
Rejected, Beaten -your flesh bled
A crown of thorns cut deep your brow
Baring my sins your shoulders bow
The depth of pain you must have known
The wrath deserved by me Alone
Poured out on you that fate-filled day
As Father, Spirit turned away
Twas there your depth of love shone bright
Into life’s darkest day this light
Your Glorious love that shone so true
The moment when You gave up You
Obedient to Your Father’s Call
You left your throne and gave Your all.
How often Lord we want to see
Your power, strength in victory
Avoiding all the pain and strife
That enters in to crush our life
We seem to never understand
Your Glory only shines as planned
When to self I die on a cross
And never cry for what is loss
For then Your glory fills my heart
And from Your Joy I’ll ne’er depart
And, so dear Lord, my one request
Help me to see Your Will is best
Before the Glory there must be
The suffering: as it was with Thee
Luke 24
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
Philippians 3
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Concluding Thoughts
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[tweetthis]Only when I die to me, can God’s Glory shine through me to reach the world[/tweetthis]
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[tweetthis]Out of the nothingness that had been me, I find my being in Jesus Christ[/tweetthis]
[bctt tweet=”I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20″ username=”effiedarlene”]
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©Effie Darlene Barba, 2018
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Footnotes and Credits
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