Thou art God’s testimony, Lord

Thou art God’s testimony

Lord

Much better than the law;

The law in letter was engraved

In it Thy type men saw.

A definition was the law

God’s picture to provide;

But Thou art God’s reality

In Thee doth God abide.

The ark of testimony too

Was but a type of Thee;

In it the law of God was placed

But God in Thee we see.

The ark

in type

was made of wood

And overlaid with gold;

It typifies Thee as a man

Who God in full doth hold.

Thou art the tabernacle too

God’s holy dwelling place;

Incarnate in the flesh Thou art

And full of truth and grace.

God’s glory we behold in Thee

Thou art the Word divine;

Thy words and deeds of love and light

Do God in life define.

The temple was a type of Thee;

The house of God Thou art;

God dwells in Thee

Himself to show

His fulness to impart.

Though Thou by Satan wast destroyed

And numbered with the dead

In resurrection Thou dost build

A larger one instead.

The city shows Thy fulness true

A figure of Thy Bride

The increase of Thyself in full

In whom Thou dost abide.

In Thee is God

the light divine

The lamp in her art Thou;

With Thee God shines thru her on all

His glory to avow.

The tabernacle and the ark

The law within them stored

The temple and the city too

Are all Thyself

dear Lord.

Thou art the hub

Thou art the rim

The all in all Thou art!

In Thee we see both God and man

How precious to our heart!