
Date of issue: 02.11.2014
Song language: English
Lo, the Central Thought of God |
1Lo, the central thought of God |
Is that He be one with man; |
He to man is everything |
That He might fulfill His plan. |
2Earthen vessel man was made- |
Body, soul, and spirit too, |
God as life that he may take |
And with Him have oneness true. |
3By the flow of life divine, |
Man becomes a precious stone |
Fit for building God’s abode, |
That His glory might be known. |
4'Tis the city God hath built, |
'Tis the dwelling God requires, |
'Tis the new Jerusalem |
Which fulfills His heart’s desires. |
5'Tis the building of the saints, |
'Tis the blend of God and man, |
Purposed by the Father’s will |
Long before the world began. |
6In its center, as its pow’r, |
Is the throne of Christ and God, |
Whence doth flow the stream of life |
As the Spirit’s living flood. |
7Christ, the tree of life, is there |
In the flowing of the stream, |
Yielding fruit of life divine |
As the food of life supreme. |
8God in Christ, the glorious light, |
Thru the city brightly shines, |
Scattering all the deathly night |
With its light of life divine. |
9God in man and man in God |
Mutual dwelling thus possess; |
God the content is to man, |
And the man doth God express. |