The God We serve will make His presence known!

While everlasting love displays The choicest of her stores.

How Sweet and Awful Is the Place ST. COLUMBA Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Musician: Ancient Irish Melody

How sweet and awful is the place With Christ within the doors, While everlasting love displays The choicest of her stores.

While all our hearts and all our songs Join to admire the feast, Each of us cries, with thankful tongues, "Lord, why was I a guest?"

"Why was I made to hear Thy voice, And enter while there's room, When thousands make a wretched choice, And rather starve than come?"

'Twas the same love that spread the feast That sweetly forced us in; Else we had still refused to taste, And perished in our sin.

Pity the nations, O our God, Constrain the earth to come; Send Thy victorious word abroad, And bring the strangers home.

We long to see Thy churches full, That all the chosen race May, with one voice and heart and soul, Sing Thy redeeming grace.

Indeed it is sweet and Awesome, when Christ displays "Heaven's Choicest Stores" to us.

Working among children gives you a perspective of both the beauty of Heaven's Stores and Hell's Fury. The beauty of their little faces and their little ambitions, unfettered by the stumbling blocks that we have accumulated to ourselves. The surety that they can do things that are clearly above them. The wonder of their unsquashed dreams is amazing. Soon into caring for them we see the ambitions of selfishness and hellish habits beginning to form. But, while they are asleep and while they are young, they show some of the most beautiful of the "Choicest of Heaven's Stores".

When thousands make a wretched choice, And rather starve than come?"

I do love the choice of the word choice that ancient Mr. Watts used to describe, both the beauty of heaven and the reality of Hell in our souls.

Are we in the Heavens Choicest Stores or the "Wretchedness of the Starving Choice"?

We know if we are!

Heal Our Land!