If We Seem To Get No Good

I Am Not What I Ought To Be, I Am Not What I Want To Be, I Am Not What I Hope To Be In Another World; But Still I Am Not What I Once Used To Be, And By The Grace Of God I Am What I Am

Let Me Endeavor To Lead You Out Of Yourself: Let Me Invite You To Look Unto Jesus.

May We Sit At The Foot Of The Cross; And There Learn What Sin Has Done, What Justice Has Done, What Love Has Done.

Assurance Grows By Repeated Conflict, By Our Repeated Experimental Proof Of The Lord's Power And Goodness To Save; When We Have Been Brought Very Low And Helped, Sorely Wounded And Healed, Cast Down And Raised Again, Have Given Up All Hope, And Been Suddenly Snatched From Danger, And Placed In Safety; And When These Things Have Been Repeated To Us And In Us A Thousand Times Over, We Begin To Learn To Trust Simply To The Word And Power Of God, Beyond And Against Appearances: And This Trust, When Habitual And Strong, Bears The Name Of Assurance; For Even Assurance Has Degrees.

When I Was Young, I Was Sure Of Many Things; Now There Are Only Two Things Of Which I Am Sure: One Is, That I Am A Miserable Sinner; And The Other, That Christ Is An All-sufficient Saviour. He Is Well-taught Who Learns These Two Lessons.