Join All The Glorious Names
Join All the Glorious Names
Join all the glorious names
Of wisdom, love, and pow’r,
That ever mortals knew,
That angels ever bore:
All are too poor to speak His worth,
Too poor to set my Savior forth.
Great Prophet of my God,
My tongue would bless Thy name:
By Thee the joyful news
Of our salvation came,
The joyful news of sins forgiv’n,
Of hell subdued and peace with heav’n.
Jesus, my great High Priest,
Offered His blood, and died;
My guilty conscience seeks
No sacrifice beside:
His pow’rful blood did once atone
And now it pleads before the throne.
Thou art my Counselor,
My Pattern, and my Guide,
And Thou my Shepherd art;
O keep me near Thy side;
Nor let my feet e’er turn astray
To wander in the crooked way.
My Savior and my Lord,
My Conqu’ror and my King,
Thy sceptre and Thy sword,
Thy reigning grace, I sing:
Thine is the pow’r; behold I sit
In willing bonds beneath Thy feet.
ISAAC WATTS originally wrote twelve stanzas for this hymn and included seventeen different names for Christ. Watts wrote several hymns on the same theme, but his final analysis was “Earth is too narrow to express His worth, His glory, or His grace.”
One such hymn starts each stanza with a question: “Is He a Rose?” “Is He a Vine?” After eighteen stanzas Watts concludes, “His beauties we can never trace till we behold Him face to face.” And still another of his hymns begins, “’Tis from the treasure of His Word I borrow titles for my Lord. Nor art, nor nature, can supply sufficient forms of majesty.” Watts understood that no matter how many titles he might ascribe to Jesus Christ, all of them together would still be inadequate to express His greatness.
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.
Ephesians 1:19-21
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