A Pilgrim Through This Lonely World

April 2017 — Grace & Truth Magazine


A Pilgrim Through This Lonely World

A Pilgrim through this lonely world The blessed Saviour passed; A Mourner through His life was He, The dying Lamb at last.
That tender heart which felt for all, For all its life-blood gave; It found on earth no resting-place Save only in the grave.
Such was our Lord; and shall we fear The cross with all its scorn, Or court a faithless evil world That wreathed His brow with thorn?
No, facing all its frowns and smiles, Like Him, obedient still, We homeward press through storm or calm To yon celestial hill.
Dead to the world with Him who died To win our hearts, our love, We, risen with our Lord and Head In spirit dwell above.—Sir Edward Denny (1796-1889)

“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” —Romans 6:1-11 NKJV