This is a song I wrote for my cousin, who is staffing at a youth camp this summer and needed a song about Zion. Unfortunately I can't post the melody, but I CAN post the lyrics! Yay!
I stand before a mountain --
I've journeyed far this way.
And I see the city of Zion --
How long I've yearned for this day!
The treasure of Christ stands before me;
He paid for it with His own blood.
And suddenly His love surrounds me,
Washing over me like a flood.
The journey was long and lonely;
I paid with my life to come.
But I've found reward a-plenty;
His face is as bright as the sun.
The water was deep and fright'ning,
And hot was the purging flame.
But none of that matters at all now;
My Jesus reigns still the same.
At last I reach the entrance,
My life's dream before mine eyes.
But unlike the dream of the sleeper,
This one is realized.
-- H. P. Edwards
March 2017
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