Thank you for sharing this Brooke. I guess Apostle Paul didn’t know that his letters to the churches would be read for Generations by The Church. We are clay in His Hands and His purpose is always best. Like you said, all that is aimed at heaven will surely last there. That is The Greatest Reward. The Pleasure of God more than the applause of men ❤️
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I’ve always loved this hymn intensely, both for the words and the melody.
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We live 10miles from Leith ..my family used to go to the Free Church in Leith till they moved from the area..sadly the church has closed now ..but its good to see that the church is recently modernising and accepting hymns and using instruments in worship now ..they have a very solid grounding in the word of God ..lovely brothers and sisters in Christ ..I will pass this on to my family as I'm sure they'll be really interested ..thank you for you're beautiful God given worship ..it ministers to me daily ..especially when things get tough Godbless and thank.you again ❤️
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Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world 💪❤️☝️❤️🙏❤️🙌♥️🫅 Love you Lord Jesus and Love you my beautiful Sister Brooke and Love you all
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Thank you lord for your Unconditional Love, mercy, comfort n peace n strength in Jesus mighty name Amen 🙏🙏🙋🙋
3 months ago | 1
How beautiful. Resting in our Lord gives me hope whenever I have trials
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Thanks Brookeee... youre great, and good timing for you and the HS to chuck that up, truck loads of blessings and favour back on you 🧒
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Going through so much at the moment, these words are life to me.
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thank you alot my God for your power and your strengh
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"I Am this dark world's Light." Thank You, Jesus! 🙌❤️🔥🙌 Beauty from ash
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Amazing. Jesus calls all that are in need and in labour for what satisfies the soul
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Have you heard the lovely version of this hymn by Joanne Hogg, former member of the band Iona. It's so beautiful...
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Brooke Ligertwood
The last line of stanza one was on repeat in my mind the last few hours, so I looked it up to enjoy the full lyric and learned some fascinating things about the personal pain the hymn writer navigated whilst writing these enduring words that I will paste below.
It was an encouragement to me that pain, misunderstanding, rejection, yuck stuff will pass and pass away, but the faithfulness, prayers and offerings we bring during painful seasons miraculously shall last. Though most will not be penned and passed down through generations, all that is aimed at heaven will surely last there.
“Horatius Bonar (1808–1889), began writing hymns as a missioner at Leith, north of Edinburgh. After the devastating Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 he became a Free Church of Scotland minister. Bonar was an avid writer of evangelical tracts, and had a great ministry among children. He was known for being intensely pastoral in his outlook, and in 1862 published God’s Way of Peace: a Book for the Anxious which was translated into three languages and sold over a quarter of a million copies in his lifetime. Ironically, he never heard his own hymns sung in his own church in Edinburgh, as his was one of the Free Church congregations to oppose the introduction of hymns! I heard the voice of Jesus say (based on Matthew 11: 28) was written in 1846, during what must have been an intensely stressful and painful time for Bonar himself in the immediate years after the 1843 schism."
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