Go Down, Moses!: None But the Righteous
Matthew 17–18
“None But the Righteous”
OH, none but the righteous,
None but the righteous,
None but the righteous shall see God.
1 Come, Thou fount of ev’ry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy praise;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by Thy help I come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
3 Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand’ring from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
4 O to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wand’ring heart to Thee.
(Boatner and Townsend 1927, 8)
Prayer Focus: Songs of praise I will ever sing to you.
Read: Isaiah 58–59 (227/138
John 15–16
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
1 SOMETIMES I feel like a motherless child, (3x)
A long ways from home; A long ways from home.
True believer, A long ways from home,
A long ways from home.
2 Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone, (3x)
Way up in de heab’nly lan’;
Way up in de heab’nly lan’.
True believer, way up in de heab’nly lan’,
Way up in the heab’nly lan’.
3 Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, (3x)
A long ways from home.
(Johnson and Johnson 1926, 30)
Prayer Focus: Thank you for sending the Comforter.
Read: Matthew 7–9 (289/76)
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Excerpted from: God Down Moses! Daily Devotions Inspired by Old Negro Spirituals, edited by Leonidas A. Johnson. Copyright © 2000. ISBN 081701372-5. Published by Judson Press. Used by permission. Unauthorized duplication prohibited.
