My favorite hymn is one with beautiful words, written by Isaac Watts. It makes for excellent meditation any day of the week.
How Sweet and Awful Is the Place
1. How sweet and awful is the place
With Christ within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.
2. While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,
"Lord, why was I a guest?"
3. "Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"
4. 'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.
5. Pity the nations, O our God,
Constrain the earth to come;
Send Thy victorious Word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
6. We long to see Thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May, with one voice and heart and soul,
Sing Thy redeeming grace.
2 comments:
This is one of my favorite hymns, too, Chris. The "new" Trinity Hymnal, which our church changed to a couple of years ago, :-(, changes "awful" to "awesome." Stuff like that drives me crazy, so I still sing it the "right" way!
I agree, Kathleen! i try to have a good attitude when we sing it in church, but at home we sing it the old-fashioned way! ;-)
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