We Are Nearing Home

Worship

Verse 1
Just over the mountains in the Promised Land
Lies the Holy City, built by God's own hand
As our weary footsteps gain the mountains crest
We can view our homeland of eternal rest

Chorus
We are nearing home! We are nearing home!
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
See the glory streaming from the gates ajar
There we soon will enter never more to roam
Hear the angels singing, we are nearing home!
We are near-ing home

Verse 2
In the rolls of the prophets we have long been
Of that wondrous city with its streets of gold
Now with raptured vision we can see it there
With its walls of jasper and its mansions fair

Verse 3
Those who enter that city are a faithful few
Who keep God's commandments, faith of Jesus too
There we'll lift our voices through the endless
It sweet songs of gladness and in psalms of pra

Verse 4
My brother, my sister will you meet us there
In that land of sunshine where there'll be no c
Accept of God's message and to Him be true
Then when Jesus cometh, He will call for you