How Sweet and Awful

‎”How sweet and awful is the place with Christ within the doors; while everlasting love displays the choicest of her stores. While all our hearts and all our songs join to admire the feast, each of us cry, with thankful tongues, “Lord, why was I a guest? Why was I made to hear thy voice, and enter while there’s room, when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than come?

“‘Twas the same love that spread the feast that sweetly drew us in; else we had still refused to taste, and perished in our sin. Pity the nations, O our God, constrain the earth to come; send thy victorious Word abroad, and bring the strangers home. We long to see thy churches full, that all the chosen race May, with one voice and heart and soul, sing thy redeeming grace”

~Isaac Watts, How Sweet and Awful is the Place

Happy Reformation Sunday

may God heal the divisions in his Church by the same Spirit that sweetly drew us in In the words of the Jewish tradition, in the Amidah, Heal us O Lord and we shall be healed, save us and we shall be saved, for You are our praise.

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