Jesus Gets & Fills My Heart

i had the HARDEST time getting these lyrics... had to email dude personally... so want them available to more... (buy the album, this song and couple others are worth it)


None Among
From the album All I Owe, available at www.matthewsmith.us
Words by John Berridge and Matthew S. Smith, Music by Matthew S. Smith
© 2006 Detuned Radio Music (ASCAP)

1. When by faith my Lord I see,
Bleeding on a cross for me
Quick my idols all depart,
Jesus gets and fills my heart

Chorus
None among the sons of men, none among the heavenly train
Can with Jesus then compare, none so sweet, none so fair

2. Soon my tongue would fain express
All His love and loveliness
But I lisp and falter forth
Broken words, not half His worth

Bridge
Oh I try and try again, still my efforts are in vain
And I know, despite my pride, that His truth will still remain
Idols crowd my heart and mind and demand I shed my blood
But the Lord, the risen Christ has secured me in the flood
Has secured me in the flood

excerpts from Piper's amazing chapter on power of Word in our fight for joy in his book WHEN I DON"T DESIRE GOD

Oh, how precious is the Bible! Here is where we see God most clearly and most surely.

To be sure, in the fight for joy we will not kneel forever over our

Bibles. We will get up and walk with Jesus onto the Calvary road. And

there, in the risks and the afflictions of love, we will see the Jesus of the Word in the manifestations of power. This too is part of our joy.

We need the Word of God not only to see God in the Word, but to see him rightly anywhere else.

I want to stress that ultimately, in and through all its benefits,

the Bible leads us to superior and lasting joy because it leads us to Christ, especially to see his glory and enjoy his fellowship. All the varied benefits are beneficial finally because they show us and bring us more of Christ to enjoy.

the Spirit binds his faithwakening ministry to the Christ-exalting Word. Which means that when we go to the Word of Christ, we put ourselves in the path of the

Spirit’s willingness to reveal Christ to us and strengthen our faith.

If we want more of the Spirit of God, we must hear more of the Word of God with faith. We must hear his promises, see their blood-bought certainty, value their goodness, and bank on them. That is the way God supplies more of his Spirit. The command in Ephesians 5:18-19, “Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in

psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,” is parallel with the command

in Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching

and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and

hymns and spiritual songs.” Being filled with the Word of Christ and

being filled with the Spirit of Christ are almost the same, because the

Spirit comes with joy where the Word is embraced with faith.

We may lack hope because we think we need something we do not need. It may take the Word of God to show us what we really need, and then to give us the power to get it. In the end what we really need is Christ. He is the sum of all our hopes. Paul commends the Thessalonians for their “steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ”

(1 Thess. 1:3). He says that our “blessed hope [is] the appearing of the

glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Tit. 2:13). Therefore

we are to “hope in Christ” (Eph. 1:12) and rejoice in the mystery of the

gospel, which is “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27).

Sometimes what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our

dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying

glory of Christ. We do not always know the path of deepest joy. But all

Scripture is inspired by God to take us there. Therefore Scripture is

worth more than all this world can offer.

the impurity of sin so distorts our perception that we cannot see God as desirable. Therefore sin makes the greatest joys impossible.

" . . . we bring the power of the Spirit into vigorous, sin-killing action by hearing with faith. Hearing what? The Word of God. Therefore, the way we destroy deceitful, joy-killing desires that threaten to overwhelm us with destructive cravings is to hear and believe the Word of God when it says that he and his ways are more to be desired than all that sin can offer" (105).

Oh, how many people in our world glory in their shame and relish poisonous pleasures!

the power of sin comes from its promise of pleasure and is meant to be defeated by the blood-bought promise of superior pleasure in God, not by raw human willpower.

The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin. This faith and sight come by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. We look to the Word, we ponder, and we plead with God that the eyes of our hearts would be opened to

see the superior glory and joy. This pleading is so important we will devote the whole of Chapter Nine to it. But suffice it to say for now that we are utterly dependent on the Spirit to make the promises of God more desirable to us than the promises of sin. And for that vital eye-opening,heart-changing work we pray every day.

-- all quotes not marked are from J.Piper