{"id":1589,"date":"2009-01-05T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2009-01-05T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T05:10:43","slug":"why-was-i-made-to-hear-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2009\/01\/05\/why-was-i-made-to-hear-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was I made to hear your voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another (Isaac Watts) song I&#8217;ve never sung in my previous life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">How sweet and awesome is the place<br \/>\nwith Christ within the doors,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">While everlasting love displays<br \/>\nthe choicest of her stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Here all the mercy of our God<br \/>\nwith vast compassion rolls;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">And peace and pardon through His blood,<br \/>\nis food for ransomed souls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">While all our hearts and all our songs<br \/>\njoin to admire the feast,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Each of us cries with thankful tongues,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, why was I a guest?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">\u201cWhy was I made to hear Thy voice,<br \/>\nand enter while there\u2019s room;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">When thousands make a wretched choice,<br \/>\nand rather starve than come?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">\u2019Twas the same love that spread the feast,<br \/>\nthat sweetly forced us in;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Else we had still refused to taste,<br \/>\nand perished in our sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Pity the nations, O our God!<br \/>\nConstrain the earth to come;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Send Thy victorious Word abroad,<br \/>\nand bring lost sinners home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">We long to see Thy churches full,<br \/>\nthat all thy chosen race<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">May with one voice and heart and soul<br \/>\nsing Thy redeeming grace.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another (Isaac Watts) song I&#8217;ve never sung in my previous life: How sweet and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sing","tag-isaac-watts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why was I made to hear your voice? 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