Sunday, July 23, 2006

SUNDAY PRAISE

O Lord, we lift up our hearts, our hands and our selves in praise to you today. We praise you for your might, your love, your mercy, your righteousness, your grace and the great salvation you provide for us in Christ.

Immortal, Invisible
Words: Walter Chalmers Smith
Music: Welsh melody
To hear the melody click on the link.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/i/iigowise.htm

1Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible hid from our eyes,
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
Almighty, victorious, Thy great Name we praise.

2Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,
Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might;
Thy justice, like mountains, high soaring above
Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.

3To all, life Thou givest, to both great and small;
In all life Thou livest, the true life of all;
We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
And wither and perish - but naught changeth Thee.

4Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,
Thine angels adore Thee, all veiling their sight;
All praise we would render; O help us to see'
Tis only the splendor of light hideth Thee!

6 comments:

Shelley L. MacKenzie said...

I love this song. We haven't sung it for awhile at church though.

Zoanna said...

They don't write 'em like that anymoooorrrre. I love the mustic our church sings (contemporary) but go over the moon when we do an old hymn with absolutely no changes to the original melody, Welsh or otherwise. Keep your Sunday Praise posts up. I look fwd to 'em every week.

Zoanna said...

The mustic? The mustic? What is THAT?

J. Wendell said...

Joe~
I admit I took the lead from you to post a Hymn on Sunday, but completely independent of you I selected the same hymn this week.

Here’s where it gets interesting… The IBEX Scribe, Angie, came by to tell me she had posted this same hymn (different version) earlier on her blog see it here.

Coincidence?

Joe said...

j. wendell: If, by coincidence you mean two things that happen at the same time, yes. But as we usually use the word? No way!

Danny Sims said...

Love it.