We are citizens of heaven

We are citizens of heaven, kingdom of the Lord our God,

Ransomed of the Lord, forgiven, living here on earthly sod.

Here we wait for our Deliverer, Jesus Christ, our Lord, to come;

In his power he will transform us and be our eternal home.

 

See the ones who show his goodness; see the ones who live his grace; 

Learn from their inspired example how to live in earthly space.

Do not seek a way of living that would turn away the cross!

Such indulgence cannot prosper; it will only suffer loss.

 

Let us all, dear friends and servants of our Savior and our Lord,

Firmly stand in God's own service; let that be our true reward.

In this service is our calling; this is what it means to say

We are citizens of heaven, living here on earthly clay.

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, March 2022, after Philippians 3:17-4:1 (Lent 2C).

MUSIC: Tune AUSTRIAN HYMN, Franz Joseph Haydn, 1797; alt.

Another one of those hymns that comes along when I really need to be writing a sermon.