The Savior’s Art
©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press
If I accept His sacrifice divine,
Returning love for love as He has done;
If I forget myself and touch the one
Whose sorrows weigh as heavily as mine;
Then will I weave my thread in His design,
That great design the Master’s hand has spun;
Wherein salvation through His blood is won,
And all are fed and nurtured on His vine.
If I reach out and calm a troubled heart,
Or let another heal the rift in me;
If, in distress, I take another’s part,
As Jesus took mine at Gethsemane;
Then I embrace the Savior’s loving art,
And honor Him throughout eternity.
“I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing” (John 15:4).
Tags: atonement, charity, Christ, discipleship, healing, love, sacrifice, salvation, service
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.