Glory, Fullness and Grace

Last week I posted a song for the New Year by Frances Ridley Havergal.  She actually wrote two New Year's hymns that have been a great blessing to many.  I trust that the following hymn will encourage you to keep digging deeper and climbing higher as we journey toward our heavenly home!

     "From glory unto glory!  be this our joyous song;
As on the King's own highway, we bravely march along.
      From glory unto glory!  O word of stirring cheer,
As dawns the solemn brightness of another glad New Year.

      The fullness of His blessing encompasseth our way;
The fullness of His promises crowns every brightening day.
      The fullness of His glory is beaming from above,
While more and more we learn to know the fullness of His love.

      And closer yet and closer the golden bonds shall be,
Uniting all who love our Lord in pure sincerity.
      And wider yet and wider shall the circling glory glow,
As more and more are taught of God that mighty love to know.

      Oh, let our adoration for all that He hath done,
Peal out beyond the stars of God, while voice and life are one;
      And let our consecration be real, and deep, and true:
Oh, even now our hearts shall bow, and joyful vows renew.

      Now onward, ever onward, from strength to strength we go,
While grace from grace abundantly shall from His fullness flow,
      To glory's full fruition, from glory's foretaste here,
Until His very presence crown our happiest New Year."

I especially love the lovely words in the fourth stanza -- may our adoration peal out beyond the stars of God, and may our consecration be real and deep and true!  Worthy is our King, so may we adore Him and give Him everything!!