Forever with the Lord (EN 4473)

EN 4473 Forever with the Lord

John.17.3

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“Forever with the Lord!”

Amen, so let it be!

Life from His death is in that word

’Tis immortality.

Here in the body pent,

Absent from Him I roam,

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent

A day’s march nearer home

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My Father’s house on high,

Home of my soul, how near

At times to faith’s foreseeing eye

Thy golden gates appear!

Ah! then my spirit faints

To reach the land I love,

The bright inheritance of saints,

Jerusalem above.

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Yet clouds will intervene,

And all my prospect flies;

Like Noah’s dove, I flit between

Rough seas and stormy skies.

Anon the clouds depart,

The winds and waters cease,

While sweetly o’er my gladdened heart

Expands the bow of peace.

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I hear at morn and even,

At noon and midnight hour,

The choral harmonies of Heaven

Earth’s Babel tongues o’erpower;

Then, then I feel that He,

Remembered or forgot,

The Lord, is never far from me,

Though I perceive Him not.

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“Forever with the Lord!”

Forever in His will,

The promise of that faithful word,

Lord, here in me fulfill.

With You at my right hand,

Then I shall never fail;

Uphold me, Lord, and I shall stand,

Through grace I will prevail.

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So when my latest breath

Breaks through the veil of pain,

By death I shall escape from death,

And life eternal gain.

That resurrection word,

That shout of victory:

Once more, “Forever with the Lord!”

Amen, so let it be!

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