God's Goodness

Saturday, April 23, 2011

HOW SWEET the NAME of JESUS SOUNDS

Here's a beautiful hymn for meditation:

http://www.livingstreambooks.com/servlet/the-template/selectedhymns/Page#hymn66

How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds

  1. How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
    In a believer’s ear!
    It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds,
    And drives away his fear.

    (Repeat the last two lines of each stanza)
  2. It makes the wounded spirit whole,
    And calms the troubled breast;
    ‘Tis manna to the hungry soul,
    And to the weary rest.
  3. Dear Name! the Rock on which we build;
    Our shield and hiding-place;
    Our never-failing treasury, filled
    With boundless stores of grace.
  4. Jesus, our Savior, Shepherd, Friend,
    Our Prophet, Priest, and King;
    Our Lord, our Life, our Way, our End,
    Accept the praise we bring.
  5. Weak is the effort of our heart,
    And cold our warmest thought;
    But when we see Thee as Thou art,
    We’ll praise Thee as we ought.
  6. Till then we would Thy love proclaim
    With every fleeting breath;
    And triumph in that blessed Name
    Which quells the pow’r of death.

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