The Name

In Jesus we behold

The Father's glorious face,

Our Savior who shall keep His own

With mild and lovely grace

The eternal God's eternal Son

Inherits and partakes the throne.

The sovereign King of kings,

The Lord of lords most high,

Writes his own name upon

His garment and his thigh:

His name is called The Word of God;

He rules the earth with His iron rod.

Behold the holy Lamb of God

Who stricken down now stands

He seals or opens every seal

With His own nail-scarred hands

And now the lion of Judah

Roars with a Holy Rage

At sin and degradation

And fully pays Sin’s wage.

But when for works of righteous peace

The great Redeemer comes,

What lovingkindness is released

The Great I AM becomes

Light of the world, and Life of men;

He shall not bear those names in vain.

Immense compassion reigns

In our Immanuel's heart,

He pleads our case and takes our pain

A Mediator's part:

He is a Friend and Brother too;

Divinely kind, divinely true.

At length the Lord the Righteous Judge

His awful throne ascends,

The Christ shall drive the rebels far

From favorites and friends:

Then shall the saints completely prove

The heights and depths of all his love.

God the Father raised him up

to highest honor and greatest fame

and gave to him the name

above all other names,

that at the name of Jesus

every knee should bow,

and every tongue confess

that Christ is Lord here and now

To the glory of God the Father.

To the Glory of God the Son

To the glory of God the Spirit

These are the Three in One.

Anthony Foster

After Isaac Watts

July 18, 2018