By far the most moving hymn for me was Isaac Watts “How Sweet and Awful” especially after R.C. Sproul’s message on how Jesus became a curse for my sin! Hallelujah what a Savior!
How sweet and aweful 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 cry, 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 drew 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.
Agreed. We’re singing it tomorrow for the first time in our congregation since it was so fresh in my memory. What a powerful (and rare) song about God’s effectual call!