When We All Get to Heaven

 

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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,  

Sing His mercy and His grace;  

In the mansions bright and blessed  

He'll prepare for us a place.  

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While we walk the pilgrim pathway  

Clouds will overspread the sky;  

But when trav'ling days are over  

Not a shadow, not a sigh.  

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Let us then be true and faithful,  

Trusting, serving ev'ry day;  

Just one glimpse of Him in glory  

Will the toils of life repay.  

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Onward to the prize before us!  

Soon His beauty we'll behold;  

Soon the pearly gates will open–  

We shall tread the streets of gold.     

Refrain:  

When we all get to heaven,  

what a day of rejoicing that will be!  

When we all see Jesus,  

we'll sing and shout the victory! 

 

Author: E. E. Hewitt (1898)   

Here's a Gaither Friends video of this great old song (not a 1-and-3-clapper among 'em) with the late great Anthony Burger on piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClwsynwVrI&list=RD6ClwsynwVrI&start_radio=1

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ~1 Corinthians 15:57

John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.    

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.    

Revelation 21:3-5 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.    

Revelation 21:21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.