Your ministry, O Lord

Your ministry

O Lord

How excellent it is;

A better covenant

And better promises;

Enacted on a better law.

Of such You are Executor.

A better covenant

And better promises;

A better law of life

And sacrifice this is.

Redemption’s work

done long ago

A better blood has made it so.

In Hebrews eight we see

The way to make us whole;

Life planted deep within

Which spreads into the soul.

The law of life

imparted

still

Inscribed in mind

emotion

will.

The law of letters leave

The law of life pursue;

The one is old and dead

The other fresh and new.

Dead teachings cannot help the seed;

The law of life is what we need.

The law of life in us

In function now we see

Works not by will and thought

But automatically.

It saturates

conforms to Him;

The standard model spreads within.

Our sins are all forgiv’n

His life imparted too;

God is our God today

And we’re His people true.

We know Him in an inward way:

These blessings four have come to stay.

We’re being sonized now;

The life within will do

The deep transforming work

Of making us anew.

In ages past

the work was done—

Now prayer is over—praise the Son!