Tune: Kingsfold
('I heard the voice of Jesus say')
Romans 8 v.18-23
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We can reckon the sufferings
And troubles this life brings
As not worthy to be compared
With glory to be shared
In believers, who in Christ are
Glory greater by far
Shall be reveled, it not concealed
When creation be healed
For creatures they do sure earnest
Wait, expect to be blest
When sons of God are manifest
And time of promised rest
Shall come in God's plans, purposes
We do this true confess
Though subject now to vanity
Creation now it be
Though God He has subjected such
Is in His great hope much
It frustrated and decaying
But God shall sure it bring
From its bondage into freedom
When comes full His kingdom
Of a new heaven and new earth
With sons of God's true worth
But creation, from death and pain
Shall be freed, ne'er again
Shall them know, but God it shall bring
Deliverance, each thing
Into the glorious liberty
Of children of God, see
And we as His sons adopted
Know Him our living head
We one day shall be full redeemed
Whate'er sufferings may seemed
To have hindered or to opposed
Not all as is supposed
For we here long to be set free
God works redemptively
Through sufferings too, the image sure
Of Christ forms in us more
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: May 1st, 2019 02:04
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. 8.6.8.6. metre. It brings in the theme of suffering. St Paul experienced them too. He wrote Romans as one of his letters/epistles. We can know some things about sufferings, though we may not know the full answer to 'Why?' The whole of creation shares, somehow, in this longing to be set free from sufferings, decay, corruption, etc. An eschatological ('end-times') theme.
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Comments6
We 'wait a while' - yet God is outside of time, as it were: one day to Him is as a thousand years, and vice versa.
So we've only been waiting just over two days, as it were, for Jesus' return! (2,000 years).
Thanks Orchi
Read his 3 time today for obvious reasons
Great write
Thanks Andrew.
CHANGE & DECAY in all around we suss
O Thou who changest not : Abide in US !
Love the HYMN : Uncle Steve thnks for caring & sharing : it is one of our faves. Love the POEM too it reminds us that all is transient : Only the GODHEAD is the SAME : Yesterday - Today & Forever : AMEN & AMEN
Blessings & Jumping for JOY to YOU & FIDO
Love in the SPIRIT : ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡 + 🧡
Its 9:30 pm (WED) here back in AUCKLAND !
Thanks B&A. Fido's jumping - he wants me to dance!
an interesting hymn poem that raises some good points for future consideration...
Thanks N. Meanwhile - you waiting for that No.7 bus? Has it arrived yet?
Fine ork O - have you seen a missing 'w'?
Thanks M. Yes, I used up quite a few 'w's here. You waiting a while - for the No.11 bus?!
No the 84 to Barnet
Good write Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
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