LOVE (III)
by George Herbert (1593-1633)
Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.
“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”;
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”
“Truth, Lord, but I have marr’d them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
“And know you not,” says Love, “who bore the blame?”
“My dear, then I will serve.”
“You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat.”
So I did sit and eat.
Tony Reinke 
Thanks Tony. Herbert is splendid.
Happy Easter. Christ is Risen.
TB
THE WINDOWS.
“LORD, how can man preach thy eternall word ?
He is a brittle crazie glasse :
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy grace.
But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie,
Making thy life to shine within
The holy Preachers, then the light and glorie
More rev’rend grows, and more doth win ;
Which else shows watrish, bleak, and thin.
Doctrine and life, colours and light, in one
When they combine and mingle, bring
A strong regard and aw : but speech alone
Doth vanish like a flaring thing,
And in the eare, not conscience ring.”
–George Herbert–
Hey Tony,
We enjoyed having you and CJ down at Metro after Ligonier. Thanks for serving him the way you do. Hey, I was checking out the blank bible project and was wondering if you knew of anyone who was developing a product like the blank bible for commercial distribution? I would definitely pick on up.
Hey Tony,
I’m not sure how else to contact you other than in a comment. I want to start a Christ-Centered Blog. I want wondering if you could give me ideas and such on what I should do as my first post and suggestions about what to write about myself what to write on. I want one similar to yours not for my sake but the sake for the Glory of Christ. I’m not a writer but I hope to get things out for others to see and read that are both believers and unbelivers so that they might glorify Christ. When I saw yours, it spiked my interest. But I wanted to know how you made the right column like you did. I guess you can either respond here or post as a comment on mine. crushed4iniquity.wordpress.com. I want to reach the world for Christ and the internet is just one way to do it. So since you have one I thought I would ask for help. Thanks Tony,
Mark
Thank you, Tony, for sharing this beautiful hymn. Once again, the sentiments of our spiritual ancestors have ‘done me in.!’ I’m blessed and encouraged everytime I visit your blog. Blessings, Linda