Cancellation and Consolation

Cancellation and consolation

Opposites you may tend to see

Cancellation and consolation

Similar they may very well be

Cancellation of my sin

And with no charge to me

Consolation: Jesus paid the price

And now I am set free

Cancellation of my death

And the victory of the grave

Consolation: both are swallowed up

By the death Christ paid

Cancellation of the judgment

Regarding all of my sin

Consolation: I have been forgiven

I now stand in Him

Cancellation of the worry

And anxiety I still feel

Consolation: Jesus the Christ

My security has sealed

Cancellation of the fear

That caused me to dread

Consolation: replaced by faith

In my Living Head

Cancellation of the hate

That once filled my breast

Consolation: God’s love casts out fear

And brings peace and rest

Cancellation of the Mosaic Law

And its accompanying curse

Consolation: now the law of Christ

After which I thirst

Cancellation of my dependency

On the enemy of my soul

Consolation: reliance on my Saviour

In whom I am made whole

  

Cancellation of the obsession

With this world’s affairs

Consolation: Jesus is the answer

And the mediator of my prayers

Cancellation of the hopelessness

And this world’s strife

Consolation: replaced by hope in Jesus

Who is the way, the truth and life

Cancellation of the bondage 

And enslavement to sin

Consolation: Liberty in Christ

And real freedom in Him

Cancellation of the notion

That salvation is partly earned

Consolation: In Christ alone

That is the lesson to be learned

Cancellation of Satan’s premise 

That I can summon help on demand

Consolation: replaced by God’s promise

That for me He has a plan

Cancellation of the adversary’s goal

To steal, to kill and destroy

Consolation: Jesus is come to give life

And all our faculties employ

Cancellation of this earth

And Satan roaming throughout its coasts

Consolation: relocated in that Holy City

With the Trinity and all the heavenly hosts

Cancellation and consolation

Opposites you may tend to see

Cancellation and consolation

Similar they may very well be

In this life however 

The former we more readily see 

For when our plans are cancelled

The latter means little to you and me

Stewart Russell © 2016