Hallelujah!!

Finding God through John

Lyrics!

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I'mfound,
Was blind, but now I see.'
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace
appear,The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares,I have already come.'
Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be forever mine.
Some versions of the hymn include an additional verse:
When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.
This verse is not by Newton. It was added to a version of "Amazing Grace" by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, as it appears in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom has pieced the lyrics of several hymns together; those who learned the lyrics from the novel have assumed that it belongs. Some versions include still another verse:
Shall I be wafted through the skies,
on flowery beds of ease,
where others strive to win the prize,
and sail through bloody seas.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be forever mine.

That verse just strikes me as sublime. I've heard the whole of our world's existence rightly called a "two-second slice" of time in light of eternity (surprise, surprise, it was in a Piper sermon:up:). There will come a time when the "earth will soon dissolve like snow" -- melting snow is something that we've all seen either in person or remotely. The kid in me still finds it
fascinating how snow, something that is hard and has a rigid structure, dissolves/melts into liquid and/or just plain evaporates. The phase changes of water, as mundane as they are as we all see them or their evidences daily, is pretty cool when you stop and notice it. That common phenomenon will happen to all that we see and know someday. An end will come & the sun will "forbearn to shine." But in contrast to that dreadful, catastrophic day, "God, who call'd me here below, / Will be forever mine." That will truly be a sweet day when we stand heart to heart, totally wide open with our finite perceptions and conceptions blown far beyond our current limitations to see the deeper reality of what really has always been: a loving, glorious God that is so beautiful to behold.
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