Active Duty, by DianaDee Osborne

ACTIVE  DUTY
ALBUM:      Amazing Peace 'n' Passion'
Song location:   http://DianaDeeOsborneSongs.com/Songs-2008-2012.php
Includes fragment of  “Near to the Heart of God” lyrics and melody by Cleland McAfee, 1901 (Public Domain)

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Song Story:  THE  MUSIC:
The song concept was inspired on a day when I very reluctantly was leaving my prayer time and realized that Jesus certainly yearned to stay in prayer...... And yet He willlingly saved our eternal lives by returning to His Own Active Duty in obedience to our Supreme Commander, God.  

Dedicated to our God Who Never Sleeps, 10 May 2010

LYRICS

VERSE  1
“There is a PLACE of quiet rest,  near to the heart of God.”
A place hidden from all your world,
a place centered all on God.  For Jesus
set for us an example:    
Go pray with God alone.  But there
comes a time to leave gardens  
    and Go with God..... ON ACTIVE DUTY.

VERSE  2
“There is a TIME of quiet rest,  near to the heart of God.”
A TIME hidden from all your world,
a TIME centered all on God.  For Jesus
set for us an example:    
Go pray with God alone.  But there
comes a time to leave gardens  
    and Go with God..... ON ACTIVE DUTY.

CHORUS
For God is
always right beside us. --- Jesus
promised -- Matthew 28 at the end.
When we see God's love and mercy,
our hearts choose to invite HIm in.
So God is
always right within us.  -- Jesus
promised -- John Fourteen.  So when we    [John 14: 16 on]
go on ACTIVE DUTY,
we're not alone: We're with our Commander Friend.

VERSE  3
“There is a time FOR quiet rest, and there's a time to march with God.
Let's  very very urgently tell all people we meet  
about God's love for them on the Cross.  For Jesus
yearns for all to be saved from death ---
Two Peter 3: 9  says.  And God calls
us to go tell all whom we meet how to find
LIFE ----- AND JOY IN DUTY.

VERSE  4               
When we SEE God's Love and Mercy,
our hearts become a quiet place with Him.
Matthew Two-Eight [28],  in verse 19.                     Matt 28:19

VERSE  5          
When we SEE God's Love and Mercy,
our hearts WILL yearn to go teach about Him.
Matthew Two-Eight [28],  in verse Twenty.             Matt 28:20
    SPOKEN:
    Your High Commander's message for you to follow and teach:
TAG:
Know your sin:  Romans 10.  
Believe Jesus died and rose again.
Then repent -- First John 1.
Trust God's Romans 10 and then
accept Him as Your Lord....
Thank God and volunteer for....
ACTIVE DUTY.

God's SUPPORTING WORDS:

“[God]... is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance.” - 2nd Peter 3:9 b

“Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” -- John 14:23  NKJV

Jesus-- “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ” -- Matthew 28:19 NKJV  

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