Words of Grace – Feb. 20, 2014

“Heaven’s Looking Sweeter All the Time.”

An old preacher once said, “I don’t know who wrote the song, but with every passing year, thoughts of Jesus and of Heaven consume me more and more.”

When John Newton wrote about the “Amazing Grace” of God that saved his wretched soul, he also wrote that “grace will lead me home” to Heaven. He knew that, even after “we’ve been there ten thousand years,” we would still be singing about “Amazing Grace.”

How often we have sung about the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ over the years. Charles Weigle had this in mind when he wrote:

There are songs we sing of Heaven While we journey here below,

And they tell of joys eternal

God will there on us bestow.

But one song we’ll sing up yonder

When we reach that heavenly place,

Is the song we’ll sing forever,

Dear old song, “Amazing Grace”!

When someday, our journey ended,

And we leave for Heaven and Home,

There’ll be joys surpassing all things

We on earth have ever known.

When we meet our blessed Savior,

Look upon His lovely face,

We’ll rejoice with Him forever,

While we sing, “Amazing Grace.”

Oh, what glory,

When we sing our Savior’s praise!

Oh, what glory,

When we see His lovely face!

Oh, what glory,

When we sing “Amazing Grace”

In the Homeland of the soul.