My Very First Lie
When I attended Sunday school, the superintendent was a lady called Sheila Christie. Before we went into our different classes, she would lead all the children in traditional Christian children's songs accompanied by her accordion. As a family, we once visited her home and I would've been about four years old. I had asked to go to the toilet and was allowed upstairs to conclude my business. In one of the bedrooms adjacent to the bathroom sat the accordion. Not only did I love its sound, I had an obsession with its many buttons and the beautiful deep red of its decoration. I naturally yielded to the temptation and fiddled with it. When I returned downstairs, my mother demanded to know if I have touched the accordion. "No!" I lied. And this is the first memory I have of sin. Doubtless there were many other examples but they have been lost in the mists of time.
“Mercy and truth are met together.” Ps. 85. 10
Truth and mercy meet together,
Righteousness and peace embrace;
Each perfection of Jehovah
Meets and shines in Jesus’ face;
Here the Father
Can be just and save by grace.
What a field of consolation!
Here no jarring notes are found;
Zion has a full salvation,
And shall all her foes confound;
Each believer
Has for hope a solid ground.
Justice has no loss sustainèd;
Truth remains in perfect light;
Not an attribute is stainèd;
All in one grand cause unite;
Savèd sinners
Must and shall in God delight.
Here’s a cord which can’t be broken;
O my soul, with wonder tell;
God himself the word has spoken,
Zion in her Lord shall dwell;
And with Jesus
Live in spite of earth and hell.
[O ye much-esteemèd sinners,
Who in Jesus Christ are found,
Rest assured you shall be winners,
Soon with glory shall be crowned;
And for ever
Shall the praise to Christ redound.]
Gadsby's Hymns, No 600.
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