"To Bethlehem"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe...

(a repeat from last year)

  (In reading the book of Ruth the other day, I was struck more than ever that her sublime entreaty to her mother in law Naomi led them together to, of all places, Bethlehem.  Ruth would become the great grandmother of King David, and thus, a grace-included ancestor of Another who would venture to Bethlehem, albeit from Heavenly origins.)

(Ruth 1)

"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee.

For whither thou goest, I will go; 

and where thou lodgest, I will lodge:

 thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."

"To Bethlehem"

Yes, I will go to Bethlehem,

to Bethlehem will I go.

To be with thee forever,

Thy God to love and know.

I'll not return to the days of old

without you ever near,

or to that life so bleak and cold, 

so filled with lonely fear.

For in your eyes, your life, your heart,

I've seen a holy Light

that drew me from so very far,

and guides me in this night.

Yes, I will go to Bethlehem,

to Bethlehem will I go.

To be with thee forever,

Thy God to love and know.

As you say farewell to this sad place,

I also bid goodbye.

I go with thee to the land of grace,

to your God, who now is mine.

Entreat me not to leave thee!

Our lives are bound as one.

I will always be beside thee,

and with thy Holy One.

Yes, I will go to Bethlehem,

to Bethlehem will I go.

To be with thee forever,

Thy God to love and know.

"For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, Saying, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee. And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given Me."

(Hebrews 2:11-13)

Weekly Memory Verse

    What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.

(Psalm 56:3)