While “we have this treasure in earthen vessels” we can never fully
manifest the best that is in us. Benjamin R. Bulkeley tells us in the
following verse that God knows how much better we intend than we can do:
There was never a song that was sung by thee,
But a sweeter one was meant to be.
There was never a deed that was grandly done,
But a greater was meant by some earnest one,
For the sweetest voice can never impart
The song that trembles within the heart.
And the brain and the hand can never quite do
The thing that the soul has fondly in view.
And hence are the tears and the burdens of pain,
For the shining goals are never to gain,
But enough that a God can hear and see
The song and the deed that were meant to be.
(1658)
=Interception=--See INTERRUPTION.
=Intercession=--See SACRIFICIAL MEDIATION.