My Day is Drawing to an End
We’re sharing something a little different from our normal devotional blog posts. But we think you should read this hymn written by our friend and author of A Word in Season, Jeremy Walker, and was originally posted on his blog.
Written after spending time talking with a saint who is nearly home.
UPDATE: I wrote this after making my visit on Tuesday 30 June 2020. It reflects some of what we spoke about, but I never read these words to her. The lady with whom I spoke went to be with Christ on the evening of Wednesday 01 July 2020. It makes these truths all the sweeter. She knows most of this now by experience, and is awaiting the dawn.
My day is drawing to an end,
The light of life grows dim;
My thoughts to Christ all sweetly tend,
For soon I’ll be with Him.
I must put off this feeble tent,
But death itself defy;
My soul released, I’ll make ascent
To be with Christ on high.
The sufferings of this present time
Soon swallowed up in love;
Out of this pain and darkness climb—
Glory to come above!
My soul with Him in perfect joy
Will wait the coming morn;
I know that nothing can destroy
The hope of that new dawn.
In Christ most happy and most blessed,
A body new I’ll take;
And all be peace, delight, and rest
When in His form I wake.
And much that I have known below
Shall quickly fade away,
But life in Christ I’ll ever know,
In God’s eternal day.