Proverbs 3.34
1 Peter 3:12
I cannot do great things for Him,
Who did so much for me,
But I would like to show my love,
Lord Jesus unto Thee.
And so I ask Thee: Give me grace,
My little place to fill,
That I may always walk with Thee,
And always do Thy will.
The most irksome thing in life is to be a slave; but to be a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ is Heaven begun on earth.
W. Trew
(Quotations from Mark ch.15)
"He took Him down," that body he had begged
for,
A body marked, disfigured as a man.
That body which ungodly men had handled
In consummation of God's highest plan.
"He wrapped Him" in the costly linen grave
clothes,
Purchased at his expense, to wrap his Lord.
And with another secretive disciple,
Embalmed it, lacking knowledge of His Word.
"He laid Him" in the tomb within the garden,
A place wherein no other man had lain.
The sacrifice he was so well prepared for,
His heart filled with devotion, grief and pain.
He "rolled a stone" across that open
grave mouth,
A stone, which Rome would seal within a day.
That stone, which on the first day's glorious morning,
Was rolled away, for empty tomb display.
He gave his tomb, his time, his worldly substance,
All to the Lord he'd worshipped from afar.
The record of the Word of God declares him,
Though ‘secret’, one who served and loved his Lord.
(J. Paterson, Jnr. Scotland)