God’s Family Hymnal 13:52

【The Manifold Love and Affections of the True Beloved】

1.Long before creation was,

You are the True beloved.

Manifold rainbow like love

Dwells in You since time of old.

You pour out affections deep

And romantic love on me.

Without me there seems a void,

Lord, I am bone of your bones,

Flesh of Your flesh.

Lord, Your love ignites my love,

Your desire stirs my desire -

Like the deep calls onto the deep,

Rippling through echoes of love!

2.You created my spirit, Lord,

“Fearfully and wonderfully made”

Your love transforms me,

Lifts me up from peak to peak!

In Your image I was made

To be Your dearest darling,

Most compatible with You.

Lord, I am Your heart’s desire,

Your greatest joy!

More and more glorious I’ll be!

I’ll forever ravish Your heart.

O how sweet our love will be;

Evermore we’ll rest in our river of love!

【Exodus 37:1-9】

1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

2 And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.

3 And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.

4 And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold

5 and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

6 And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

7 And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat,

8 one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.

9 The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.