Calvary’s Anthem

BY She Reads Truth

Text: Ephesians 1:7-8, 2:13

As we walk through this season of reflection and repentance together, we want to provide time and space for us as individuals and a community to meditate on God’s Word and bow at His feet in prayer.

Each Saturday during Lent we will read a brief passage of Scripture and a corporate prayer, both carefully chosen for this specific place in our Lenten journey. Sundays will be dedicated to scripture memorization, one of our favorite habits here at She Reads Truth.

We pray you will not only meet with the Savior on these quieter weekend days, but linger there with Him, in prayer and in His Word.

HEAVENLY FATHER,

Thou hast led me singing to the cross
     where I fling down all my burdens
       and see them vanish,
 where my mountains of guilt are levelled
   to a plain,
 where my sins disappear, though they are
   the greatest that exist,
 and are more in number than the grains
   of fine sand;

For there is power in the blood of Calvary
 to destroy sins more than can be counted
   even by one from the choir of heaven.
Thou hast given me a hill-side spring
 that washes clear and white,
   and I go as a sinner to its waters,
     bathing without hindrance
       in its crystal streams.
At the cross there is free forgiveness
   for poor and meek ones,
 and ample blessings that last for ever;
The blood of the Lamb is like a great river
   of infinite grace
 with never any diminishing of its fullness
 as thirsty ones without number drink of it.

O Lord, for ever will thy free forgiveness live
 that was gained on the mount of blood;
In the midst of a world of pain
 it is a subject for praise in every place,
   a song on earth, an anthem in heaven,
     its love and virtue knowing no end.
I have a longing for the world above
 where multitudes sing the great song,
 for my soul was never created to love
   the dust of earth.
Though here my spiritual state is frail and poor,
 I shall go on singing Calvary’s anthem.
May I always know
 that a clean heart full of goodness
   is more beautiful than the lily,
 that only a clean heart can sing by night
   and by day,
 that such a heart is mine when I abide
   at Calvary.

– “Calvary’s Anthem”, from The Valley of Vision