Jesus Stands Upon the Mountain

 

A Transfiguration Hymn

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Tune: Werde Munter (LSB 548)

 

 

1. Jesus stands upon the mountain

Brighter than the sun can shine,

Teaching us He is the fountain

Of all life and joys divine;

His appearance changes so

We may hear and love to know

That to Him it has been given

To make us the heirs of Heaven.

 

2. With Him Moses and Elijah

Speak of death that He will taste;

Law and Prophet and Messiah

In apostles’ sight are placed;

Now we trust the Scriptures’ Word

That declares God’s Son our Lord;

Abba, Father, let us hear Him,

And in faith and love revere Him! 

 

3. O my God in mortal nature,

Out of Egypt came Your call;

You are Israel’s greater Teacher,

And You made death’s sea a wall,

So in You the way is found,

Where we live when sin is drowned,

And our bondage to the devil

Is destroyed with all our evil. 

 

4. Jesus, take the veil from Moses,

Turn us to the Law fulfilled

In Your spotless death that shows us

Where God’s wrath was justly stilled,

So that we, with unveiled face

Are transformed in You by grace

From the weak and transitory

To the image of Your glory.

February A+D 2019