Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - Secret Source - Fountain of Life and Light

Day 7: Fountain of life and light

Of my life the fountain spring, now my all to Thee I bring

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light (Psalm 36:9).

“The author of all being,

Fountain of light, Thyself invisible

Amidst the glorious brightness where Thou sitt’st.”

~ John Milton

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Life is in God as in a fountain, and from Him is derived to us.

As the God of nature, He is the fountain of natural life; in Him we live, and move, and have our being.

As the God of grace, He is the fountain of spiritual life: all the strength and comfort of sanctified souls; all their gracious principles, powers, and performances, are from Him. He is the spring and author of all their sensations of divine things, and of all their motions toward them; and He invites all that thirst, nay, and whosoever will, to come and partake of these waters of life freely.

As the God of glory, He is the fountain of eternal life: the happiness of glorified saints consists in the vision and fruition of Him, and in the immediate communications of His love, without interruption, or fear, or cessation.

This glorious, blessed, and endless life is alone worthy of the name of life: this present temporal life being only a passage to death, and a theatre of great and manifold calamities.

In Thy light — In the knowledge of Thee in grace, and the vision of Thee in glory; especially in the latter; in the light of Thy countenance, or glorious presence, which then shall be fully manifested unto us, when we shall see Thee clearly and face to face, and not through a glass and darkly, as we now see; shall we see light — The light of life, as it is called (John 8:12); light in this clause being the same thing with life in the former: pure light without any mixture of darkness; knowledge without ignorance, holiness without sin, happiness without misery.

~ Benson Commentary

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Jesus, Thou a fountain art,

Springing up within my heart;

Fount of joy and happiness,

Source of everlasting bliss.

Refrain:

All is joy, all is peace,

With my Jesus in my breast;

All my soul can wish I find,

O my Lord, in Thee combined.

Precious rest I’ve found in Thee,

Rest from care and trouble free;

While eternal ages roll,

Nothing can disturb my soul.

Savior, Thou dost shine within,

Since my heart is free from sin;

Holy pleasures now abide,

And my soul is satisfied.

Jesus, tune my heart to sing

All the glory Thou dost bring;

While Thy name and throne endure,

Every good to me is sure.

Lord, my life, the truth, the way,

In my heart the light of day;

Thou my hope and portion be,

Jesus, all in all to me.

~ Daniel S. Warner ~ pub. 1893

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