Lamb Of God, Our Souls Adore Thee

September 2012 — Grace & Truth Magazine

Lamb Of God, Our Souls Adore Thee

Lamb of God, our souls adore Thee, While upon Thy face we gaze; There the Father’s love and glory Shine in all their brightest rays. Thy almighty power and wisdom All creation’s works proclaim; Heaven and earth alike confess Thee As the ever great I AM.
Son of God, Thy Father’s bosom Ever was Thy dwelling-place; His delight, in Him rejoicing, One with Him in power and grace. O what wondrous love and mercy! Thou didst lay Thy glory by, And for us didst come from heaven, As the Lamb of God to die. Lamb of God, when we behold Thee Lowly in the manger laid; Wandering as a homeless Stranger, In the world Thy hands had made. When we see Thee in the garden In Thine agony of blood, At Thy grace we are confounded, Holy, spotless, Lamb of God.
When we see Thee, as the Victim, Nailed to the accursed tree, For our guilt and folly stricken, All our judgment borne by Thee, Lord, we own with hearts adoring, Thou hast washed us in Thy blood; Glory, glory everlasting, Be to Thee, Thou Lamb of God!— J. G. Deck (1802-1884)

Worthy Is The Lamb

“I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain ... Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying:

‘You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals;
For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
And have made us kings and priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth.’

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice:

‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!’

And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:

‘Blessing and honor and glory and power
Be to Him who sits on the throne,
And to the Lamb, forever and ever!’”
— Revelation 5:6-14 NKJV