Maybe My New Favorite Song Of All Time (Or At Least Today)...

There is a song we have been singing the past few weeks at Merge that is by no means new and by no means have I never heard it before. One of the groups I listen to (Shane and Shane) did a rendition of it on an album of theirs and I always liked it.

But over these past two weeks I have been able to engage with these words in worship. There is power in being able to read words on a screen as you sing them to your Creator. At times seeing the words can be refreshing, challenging, convicting, or in this case liberating.

It is an old hymn "Before the Throne Of God Above" written in 1863 by Charitie L. Bancroft. You should slow down and read the promise of these lyrics:

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong, a perfect plea:
A great High Priest, whose name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.

My name is graven on his hands,
My name is written on his heart;
I know that while in heaven he stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look, and see him there
Who made an end of all my sin.

Because a sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free;
For God, the Just, is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me

Behold him there, the risen Lamb
My perfect, spotless righteousness,
The great unchangeable I am,
The King of glory and of grace!

One in himself, I cannot die
My soul is purchased by his blood
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ, my Savior and my God
With Christ, my Savior and my God

Heart and Soul,
BAG
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