180. We Are but Strangers Here

6,4,6,4,6,6,6,4.
by T.R. Taylor, 1836
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We are but strangers here;
 
Heaven is our home!
 
Earth is a desert drear;
 
Heaven is our home!
 
Dangers and sorrows stand
 
Round us on every hand;
 
Heaven is our fatherland,
 
Heaven is our home!
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” (1 Peter 2:11)
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 3:20)
“<<A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.>> O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.” (Psalm 63:1)
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.” (Psalm 18:4-5)
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What though the tempest rage,
 
Heaven is our home!
 
Short is our pilgrimage;
 
Heaven is our home!
 
This life’s wild wintry blast
 
Soon will be overpast;
 
We shall reach home at last;
 
Heaven is our home!
“And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.” (Matthew 8:24)
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none.” (1 Corinthians 7:29)
3
There at our Savior’s side,
 
In heaven our home!
 
We shall be glorified;
 
Heaven is our home!
 
There with the good and blest,
 
Those we love most and best,
 
We shall forever rest,
 
In heaven our home!
“Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Romans 8:30)
“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:6)
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Therefore we’ll murmur not,
 
Heaven is our home!
 
Whate’er our earthly lot;
 
Heaven is our home!
 
We shall yet surely stand,
 
There at our Lord’s right hand;
 
Heaven is our fatherland,
 
Heaven is our home!
“Do all things without murmurings and disputings.” (Philippians 2:14)
“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” (Philippians 4:11-12)
“Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psalm 16:11)
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