This one goes in the ‘just sayin” department:
Tonight, I was meditating on the biblical teaching of ‘glorification’ and began to think of Isaac Watts’ great line:
‘The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and love may grow.”
I then listened to the hymn, We’re Marching to Zion, and thought about its entirety, which leaves me just sayin’: I don’t know if there is a more beautiful hymn in the history of hymnody, and I don’t think I’ve ever actually sung it in a church service. I’m going to see if I can change that this coming Lord’s Day. Here are the lyrics and a video for your pleasure:
- Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.- Refrain:
We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.
- Refrain:
- The sorrows of the mind
Be banished from the place;
Religion never was designed
To make our pleasures less. - Let those refuse to sing,
Who never knew our God;
But children of the heav’nly King
May speak their joys abroad. - The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow. - The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heav’nly fields,
Or walk the golden streets. - Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on high. (via Timeless Truths)
