Dear Friends,
Are we asleep? Don’t worry. God has a wake-up call for us. We just must not hit the snooze button but allow it to wake us up for sure. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Romans 7:8-9 (ESV)

  8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

“Lord, how secure my conscience was,

And felt no inward dread!

I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead.

My hopes of heaven were firm and bright,

But, since the precept came

With a convincing power and light,

I find how vile I am.

My guilt appeared but small before

Till terribly I saw

How perfect, holy, just, and pure,

Was thine eternal law.

Then felt my soul the heavy load;

My sins revived again;

I had provoked a dreadful God,

And all my hopes were slain.

I’m like a helpless captive, sold

Under the power of sin:

I cannot do the good I would,

Nor keep my conscience clean.

My God! I cry with every breath

For some kind power to save;

To break the yoke of sin and death,

And thus redeem the slave.”

[Isaac Watts]