WTTW: OUR PRAISE

Wednesday

Our Praise:

GLORY BE TO GOD ON HIGH

GLORY be to God on high,
and peace on earth descend:
God comes down, He bows the sky,
and shows Himself our friend:
God the invisible appears:
God, the blest, the great I AM,
sojourns in this vale of tears,
and Jesus is His name.

2 Him the angels all adored,
their maker and their King;
tidings of their humbled Lord
they now to mortals bring.
Emptied of His majesty,
of His dazzling glories shorn,
being’s source begins to be,
and God Himself is born!

3 See the eternal Son of God
a mortal Son of man;
dwelling in an earthly clod,
whom heaven cannot contain.
Stand amazed, ye heavens, at this!
See the Lord of earth and skies;
humbled to the dust He is,
and in a manger lies.

4 We, the sons of men, rejoice,
the Prince of Peace proclaim;
with heaven’s host lift up our voice,
and shout Immanuel’s name:
knees and hearts to Him we bow;
of our flesh and of our bone,
Jesus is our brother now,
and God is all our own.

Charles Wesley, 1707-88