Songs of Love:86

【What I have Gained is so Beautiful】

What I have gained is so beautiful,

More than I can ever dream of,

More than I can obtain in this world;

I cannot exchange it with anything.

Your affection has shown.

You have gladly bestowed

So that I may know

What I have gained is so beautiful,

More than all the things You have made.

The sky is clear and blue.

The clouds tell your message,

Much more is Your personal love.

You partake in my life,

Light up all my days.

What I have gained is so beautiful.

I am no longer a slave to sin,

But my heavenly Father's dear child,

And You walk with me in this life journey

Through suff'ring to glory.

Understand Your heart, Your desire for me,

Enjoy the abode with You and the Father,

All these make me dance with cheer.

What I have gained is so beautiful.

One day I'll live in the heav'nly place;

All tears, sorrows will pass away.

Every day I can see You face to face,

Live in eternal sweetness and grace.

O' Lord, having You, all are so beautiful!

【2 Cor 3:1-18】

1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

4 Such confidence we have through Christ towards God,

5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

8 won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

9 For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

15 But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.