"He Is Able."

by Jarvis, A. G. | Category: General | Jul 1936

"Able to save " by virtue of His cross

From guilt's dread burden and eternal loss;

"Able to save" by virtue of His blood

From the just judgement of a Holy God.

"Able to save" from the dread doom of sin

And from the fears that conscience wakes within.

"Able to save" from Hell's eternal night

Because He bore the gloom, Whose name is Light.

"Able to save" by virtue of His place

Exalted now upon the throne of grace.

"Able to save" from the dread tempter's power

Who waits our darkest, or our weakest hour.

"Able to save " through trial and sore distress

And make our sorrows but a means to bless.

"Able to save" e 'en in our direst need

Because He ever lives to intercede.

"Able to save" unto the uttermost

All who are His-a vast unnumbered host.

"Able to save," Yes ! at His clarion call

The grave, cold grave, at last shall give up all

Who, while they lived believed upon His Name.

And they who die not, but whose breath shall stay

Within their bodies till that glorious day

Shall hear His voice, and with the dead shall rise,

To meet their Blessed SAVIOUR in the skies.

"Able to do" exceeding more than we

In largest prayer doth ask, or thought can see.

The measure of the glory He has brought

Who, for His Father God, on earth hath wrought,

Wrought perfectly God's great Redemption plan-

"Glory to God on high" and "Peace" to man:

Such is the measure of His power to do

Exceedingly beyond our broadest view.

"Able to do" when human strength grows weak

And we with suppliant hearts His strengthening seek.

"Able to do" when all is dark as night,

And lead us still, and always lead aright.

"Able to do " when sorrows fill the breast-

He takes us to His heart and bids us rest.

"Able to do" when death's cold rising flood

Sweeps onward, and we lean upon our God.

"Able to guard" along life's rugged way,

To keep our feet from slipping day by day:

"Able to guard" from stumbling, and at last

When vale and hill and desert all are past,

To set us down before the glorious throne,

And in the presence of His angels own

That we are His, brought by His blood so nigh

To share the glory of His throne on high.

"Able to guard" and faultless set us down

Where saint and angel humbly cast their crown-

Or, if no crown, themselves, at His blest feet

And prostrate, worship at His lofty seat.

"Able to guard" and set us down with joy,

His joy, exceeding, and without alloy:

The joy that satisfies the Eternal Three

Which joy shall our eternal portion be.

Jarvis, A. G. | Jul 1936
General

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