Sunday's Hymn: Complete in Thee

Complete in Thee! No work of mine
May take, dear Lord, the place of Thine;
Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,
And I am now complete in Thee.

Refrain
Yea justified! O blessed thought!
And sanctified! Salvation wrought!
Thy blood hath pardon bought for me,
And glorified, I too, shall be!

Complete in Thee! No more shall sin,
Thy grace hath conquered, reign within;
Thy voice shall bid the tempter flee,
And I shall stand complete in Thee.

Complete in Thee—each want supplied,
And no good thing to me denied;
Since Thou my portion, Lord, wilt be,
I ask no more, complete in Thee.

Dear Savior, when before Thy bar
All tribes and tongues assembled are,
Among Thy chosen will I be,
At Thy right hand, complete in Thee.

—Aaron R. Wolfe

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Jesus the Very Thought of Thee at Field Stone Cottage
• Summer Suns Are Glowing at The Happy Wonderer
• Holy, Holy, Holy at Rosemary at Home
• In the Wilderness Prepare Ye at Conjubilant With Song
• Lord’s Day 26 at Tried With Fire 
• A Sunday Psalm: The Treasury of David - Psalm 5:7-8 at Theology for Girls
• Lord’s Day 26, 2012 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Feelings, dreams, and supernatural thoughts
• Update: Faith Alone - June 24, 2012 at The Upward Call

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

This Week in Housekeeping

Some recently updated theological terms.

common grace

• Added a link to Tim’s Challies recent post explaining common grace. 

eternal generation of the Son

• Added a link to Keith Johnson’s Is the Eternal Generation of the Son a Biblical Idea?
• Added a link to Jung S. Rhee’s The History of the Doctrine of the Eternal Generation of the Son and Its Significance in Trinitarianism

canon

• Added links to the Michael Kruger Kistemaker Lectures that I recommended in this post last Monday.

The Hidden Life of Prayer, Chapter 4

The fourth chapter of The Hidden Life of Prayer by David McIntyre, contains instructions and encouragement for worshipping God in our prayer. McIntyre divides our “tributes of praise” into three categories:

• Acknowledgement of daily mercies, the “benefits which recur with so much regularity that they seem to us ‘common’ and ‘ordinary,’ which penetrate with golden threads the homespun vesture of our daily life.” These are things we barely notice, and yet, they are wonderful gifts from our good God and ought to be counted and remembered and included in our praise. “For the beauty of nature, the fellowship of the good, the tender love of home; for safe conduct in temptation, strength to overcome, deliverance from evil; for the generosity, the patience, the sympathy of God; and for ten thousand thousand unobserved or unremembered mercies, let us unweariedly blee His Holy Name.” We also should thank God for the difficult things that come into our lives because ” all things—even the trials—work together for our good.
• Thanksgiving for redemption, our acceptance by God in Christ. “The blood of Christ, the grace of the Spirit, the light of the Divine countenance, are ‘three jewels worth more than heaven’.”
• Contemplation of the divine perfection—adoring God for who he is. “[I]t is probable that to each sincere believer there are granted seasons of communion when, as one turns to the unseen glory, the veil of sense become translucent, and one seems to behole withing the Holiest the very Face and Froms of Him who died for our sins.”

With this chapter, I began to see why some consider this little book a classic. These divisions of worship in prayer are quite practical. I plan to use these three categories of “tributes of praise.” as reminders to give me direction when I pray.