Full Assurance of Hope

Verse 1

Come on, my partners in distress, My comrades through the wilderness, Who still your bodies feel; Awhile forget your griefs and fears, And look beyond the vale of tears, To that celestial hill.

Verse 2

Beyond the bounds of time and space Look forward to that heavenly place, The saints' secure abode: On faith’s strong eagle pinions rise, And force your passage to the skies, And scale the mount of God.

Verse 3

Who suffer with our Master here, We shall before His face appear And by His side sit down; To patient faith the prize is sure, And all that to the end endure The cross, shall wear the crown.

Verse 4

Thrice blessed, bliss-inspiring hope! It lifts the fainting spirits up, It brings to life the dead: Our conflicts here shall soon be past And you and I ascend at last, Triumphant with our head.

Verse 5

That great mysterious Deity We soon with open face shall see; The beatific sight Shall fill the heavenly courts with praise, And wide diffuse the golden blaze Of everlasting light. AMEN.