By Faith
If you don’t know who the Gettys are, you need to. Seriously, go to their website, listen to their music, and then buy it.
They have carved a niche into the Christian music market with fresh, beautiful, thought provoking, doctrinally rich hymns. When I sing these songs at church and in our home my mind is flooded with Biblical images, encouragement, and motivation. Take a listen to my latest favorite “By Faith”. I seriously cannot get this song out of my head and am so blessed by the lyrics.
Listen.
No really, listen.
Did you hear those words?
“By faith our fathers roamed the earth
with the power of the promise in their hearts
of a holy city built by God’s own hand
a place where peace and justice reign
We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on him
our soul’s reward!
Till the race is finished and the work is done
We’ll walk by faith and not by sight.
By faith the prophets saw a day
When the longed for Messiah would appear
With the power to break the chains of sin and death
And rise triumphant from the grave!”
These truths are so sweet; like honey on my lips. They bring tears of joy to my eyes and lift my soul from the mundane to the glorious. Sing with me today of our soul’s reward!
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I had not heard this one yet. Thanks for broadening my horizons!
They are so annointed! Thank you for sharing. Your blog is such a blessing:)
thank you for sharing this hymn. I love this blog. One note however…. it makes me sad when some songwriters (I don’t know if the Gettys do this or not-I’m going to assume not
rewrite other people’s lyrics to create a new/revised song. This seems unkind and unfair to the author. I love the idea of writing new songs but rewriting somebody else’s lyrics pains me.