The Beauty of Your Holiness

The Beauty of Your Holiness

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This song was written to celebrate the completion of pastor Lou Mitchell’s dissertation, The Experience of Beauty in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards. The song draws on images Edwards uses in writings such as Religious Affections and The Excellency of Christ and from 2 Chronicles 20:21: “After he (Jehoshaphat) had advised the people, he appointed people to sing to the Lord and praise him for the beauty of his holiness.”

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words and music by Greg Scheer
for the Rev. Dr. Louis J. Mitchell
copyright 1997
CCLI #2046569
OneLicense #125294

1. If we could have tongues of angels,
if we had the wings of cherubim
to circle the throne in heaven
and cry Holy Lord God with the seraphim,
all the songs that we could raise
in a life of ceaseless praise,
eternity won’t give us ways to express
the beauty of your holiness.

2. If we were to fear the Lion,
if we were to love the Lamb,
if we were to cry hosanna,
or bow before the Great I AM,
all the names that we could give,
all the words used to express
could only hope to show a little of
the beauty of your holiness.

3. If we could spend all our hours
repaying the mercies shown to us,
expend ev’ry ounce of our power,
it would never begin to be enough.
The purest deeds we have to share,
the choicest off’rings we prepare,
amount to rags when we compare it to
the beauty of your holiness.

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