Come, Let Us Tune Our Loftiest Song
Come, Let Us Tune Our Loftiest Song
Come, let us tune our loftiest song
And raise to Christ our joyful strain;
Worship and thanks to Him belong,
Who reigns, and shall forever reign.
His sovereign power our bodies made;
Our souls are His immortal breath;
And when His creatures sinned, He bled,
To save us from eternal death.
Burn every breast with Jesus’ love;
Bound every heart with rapturous joy;
And saints on earth, with saints above,
Your voices in His praise employ.
Extol the Lamb with loftiest song;
Ascend for Him our cheerful strain;
Worship and thanks to Him belong,
Who reigns and shall forever reign.
THOMAS TULLER, a seventeenth-century English theologian, wished he could sing better. Once he prayed, “Hadst Thou given me a better voice, I would have praised Thee with a better voice. . . . Yea, Lord, create in me a new heart, therein to make melody, and I will be contented with my old voice until in Thy due time, being admitted unto the choir of heaven, I have another, more harmonious, bestowed upon me.”
God’s tuning fork doesn’t tune human vocal chords; it is more concerned that human hearts be tuned to heaven. That is what Robert West had in mind when he wrote this hymn. West loved music, and within five years of arriving in America from England in 1843, he was appointed to a committee to compile a new Methodist hymnal. One of the hymns included in that hymnal was this one—from beginning to end, a hymn of praise to Jesus Christ.
Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.
Jude 1:24-25
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