161. "Forever With the Lord!"

S.M.
by J. Montgomery, 1835
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"Forever with the Lord!"
 
Amen! so let it be:
 
Life from the dead is in that word,
 
’Tis immortality.
“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
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Here in the body pent,
 
Absent from Him we roam,
 
Yet nightly pitch our moving tent
 
A day’s march nearer home.
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Our Father’s home on high,
 
Home to our souls how dear,
 
E’en now to faith’s transpiercing eye
 
Thy golden gates appear.
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Our thirsty spirits faint
 
To reach the home we love;
 
The bright inheritance of saints,
 
Jerusalem above.
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And though there intervene
 
Rough seas and stormy skies,
 
Though by no mortal vision seen
 
Thy glory fills our eyes.
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Hebrews 2:9)
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There shall all clouds depart,
 
The wilderness shall cease;
 
And sweetly shall each gladdened heart
 
Enjoy eternal peace.
“And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.” (2 Samuel 23:4)
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