Somehow, just by his silent presence, he was sharing the pain of those deep feelings within me, and wordlessly giving me part of his own inner strength.”
–Clair Huffaker (The Cowboy and the Cossack)
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
–Philippians 3:12(NKJV)
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I’ve had a song going through my noggin for the past two weeks. Looking it up in my old Melodies of Praise hymnal I saw that I have used this hymn three other times: Sep 2016; Jan 2018; and Apr 2021. However, it is a good hymn, and since it has been on my mind for two weeks I thought I’d share the words with you. It must be for someone out there. The hymn was written by C.P. Jones, who wrote that the hymn “grew out of my dissatisfaction with my limited ability to do good… I prayed for deeper grace, deeper wisdom, more perfect conformity to and willingness to do God’s will.”
Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.
We all should want to experience more of the love of Jesus, and this does not mean to keep sinning or to commit a grave sin, but simply by growing closer to Him each and every day. We should yearn to know more of Him, to learn how to be like HIm, to seek Him more and more and grow in grace.
Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,
And His perfect will.
To know Jesus deeper and more fully we need the help of the Holy Spirit. He will guide us, direct us, and show us how to be more like Jesus and to conform more to His will. To know Him better, to do His will more perfectly we must be in the Word of God. We need to lose our life to gain more of Him. We need to let the Holy Spirit have more of us.
Deeper, deeper! tho’ it cost hard trials,
Deeper let me go!
Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,
Let me fruitful grow.
Jones had a hunger when he wrote this song. He said, “I felt that nevertheless I was coming short of my highest privileges of service in Christ.” To come to know Him and His will more fully and to grow in grace producing good fruit we might have to go through trials and tribulations. There may be sorrow in suffering in our lives so that we may seek a deeper walk with Him.
Deeper, higher, ev’ry day in Jesus,
Till all conflict past,
Finds me conqu’ror, and in His own image
Perfected at last.
One day, not now–now we are still striving. We have not obtained, but striving for that perfect image of Christ. We groan and moan upon this old earth, hating our failures, repenting for our sins, and seeking to be stronger, deeper, and higher in Jesus. I did find that there were actually five verses though only four appeared in the songbook. Here is the fifth verse.
Deeper, deeper in the faith of Jesus,
Holy faith and true,
In His pow’r and soul-exalting wisdom
Let me peace pursue.
O deeper yet, I pray,
And higher ev’ry day,
And wiser, blessed Lord,
In Thy precious, holy word.
“Without faith it is impossible to please Him…” (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV), but without faith it is also impossible to gain more knowledge of Him. Without faith it is impossible to go deeper in our walk with the Lord.
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I’ve had a song going through my noggin for the past two weeks. Looking it up in my old Melodies of Praise hymnal I saw that I have used this hymn three other times: Sep 2016; Jan 2018; and Apr 2021. However, it is a good hymn, and since it has been on my mind for two weeks I thought I’d share the words with you. It must be for someone out there. The hymn was written by C.P. Jones, who wrote that the hymn “grew out of my dissatisfaction with my limited ability to do good… I prayed for deeper grace, deeper wisdom, more perfect conformity to and willingness to do God’s will.”
Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.
We all should want to experience more of the love of Jesus, and this does not mean to keep sinning or to commit a grave sin, but simply by growing closer to Him each and every day. We should yearn to know more of Him, to learn how to be like HIm, to seek Him more and more and grow in grace.
Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus,
And His perfect will.
To know Jesus deeper and more fully we need the help of the Holy Spirit. He will guide us, direct us, and show us how to be more like Jesus and to conform more to His will. To know Him better, to do His will more perfectly we must be in the Word of God. We need to lose our life to gain more of Him. We need to let the Holy Spirit have more of us.
Deeper, deeper! tho’ it cost hard trials,
Deeper let me go!
Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,
Let me fruitful grow.
Jones had a hunger when he wrote this song. He said, “I felt that nevertheless I was coming short of my highest privileges of service in Christ.” To come to know Him and His will more fully and to grow in grace producing good fruit we might have to go through trials and tribulations. There may be sorrow in suffering in our lives so that we may seek a deeper walk with Him.
Deeper, higher, ev’ry day in Jesus,
Till all conflict past,
Finds me conqu’ror, and in His own image
Perfected at last.
One day, not now–now we are still striving. We have not obtained, but striving for that perfect image of Christ. We groan and moan upon this old earth, hating our failures, repenting for our sins, and seeking to be stronger, deeper, and higher in Jesus. I did find that there were actually five verses though only four appeared in the songbook. Here is the fifth verse.
Deeper, deeper in the faith of Jesus,
Holy faith and true,
In His pow’r and soul-exalting wisdom
Let me peace pursue.
O deeper yet, I pray,
And higher ev’ry day,
And wiser, blessed Lord,
In Thy precious, holy word.
“Without faith it is impossible to please Him…” (Hebrews 11:6, NKJV), but without faith it is also impossible to gain more knowledge of Him. Without faith it is impossible to go deeper in our walk with the Lord.