Reflections on Grace:

By Brent D. Summerhill

January 28, 2010 – For Communion at Faith (January 31, 2010)

Based on 2 Samuel 4:4 and 2 Samuel 9

Broken was I,

Broken was he;

Outcasts were we both,

Mephibosheth and me.

He – the grandson of a disgraced king,

Broken in a hasty escape;

He was left without remedy,

In this world he had no place.

Me – a child of Adam's race,

Broken was I by sin;

I too was left without remedy,

No peace, no hope within.

Living in exile,

Were Mephibosheth and me;

Crippled and helpless,

No future could we see.

Until the day the message came,

A message from the King;

"Come! Come to my house!" he called,

"Come and dine with me."

We shook with fear

And trembled in awe;

"Why such regard,

"For two dead dogs?"

For him it was for Jonathan's sake,

A friend knit to David's soul;

For me it was for Christ alone,

The friend to sinners here below.

And so, amazed that we were called,

To the King we came;

We fell in worship at his feet,

We, the broken and the lame.

Then lifted up in arms of grace,

All our fears were made to flee;

As we were carried to the table,

Mephibosheth and me.