Hymns for God’s Peculiar People 15
This World is Not My Home
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1Farewell! farewell! to all below,
My Jesus calls and I must go:
I'll launch my boat upon the sea,
This land is not the land for me.
This world is not my home;
This world is not my home;
This world is all a wilderness;
This world is not my home.
2I found the winding path of sin
A rugged path to travel in;
Beyond this fading world I see
The land the Saviour bought for me.
This world is not my home;
This world is not my home;
This world is all a wilderness;
This world is not my home.
3Farewell! my friends ! I'll not stay here—
The home I seek will soon appear;
Where Christ is not, I cannot be;
This land is not the land for me.
This world is not my home;
This world is not my home;
This world is all a wilderness;
This world is not my home.
4Praise be to God our hope's on high;
The angels sing and so do I
Where seraphs bow and bend the knee,
0 that's the land—the land for me.
This world is not my home;
This world is not my home;
This world is all a wilderness;
This world is not my home.
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- Scripture
- Heb 11:13-16; Phil 3:20; 1 Pet 2:11
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