All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

This song was just going through my mind. You may know some of the lines, but chances are you don't know most. I didn't. It first appeared in 1779 with the last stanza being added in 1787. Enjoy.

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

All hail the power of Jesus’ Name! Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.

Let highborn seraphs tune the lyre, and as they tune it, fall
Before His face Who tunes their choir, and crown Him Lord of all.
Before His face Who tunes their choir, and crown Him Lord of all.

Crown Him, ye morning stars of light, Who launched this floating ball;
Now hail the strength of Israel’s might, and crown Him Lord of all.
Now hail the strength of Israel’s might, and crown Him Lord of all.

Crown Him, ye martyrs of your God, who from His altar call;
Extol the Stem of Jesse’s Rod, and crown Him Lord of all.
Extol the Stem of Jesse’s Rod, and crown Him Lord of all.

Ye seed of Israel’s chosen race, ye ransomed from the fall,
Hail Him who saves you by His grace, and crown Him Lord of all.
Hail Him who saves you by His grace, and crown Him Lord of all.

Hail Him, ye heirs of David’s line, Whom David Lord did call,
The God incarnate, Man divine, and crown Him Lord of all,
The God incarnate, Man divine, and crown Him Lord of all.

Sinners, whose love can ne’er forget the wormwood and the gall,
Go spread your trophies at His feet, and crown Him Lord of all.
Go spread your trophies at His feet, and crown Him Lord of all.

Let every kindred, every tribe on this terrestrial ball
To Him all majesty ascribe, and crown Him Lord of all.
To Him all majesty ascribe, and crown Him Lord of all.

O that with yonder sacred throng we at His feet may fall!
We’ll join the everlasting song, and crown Him Lord of all.
We’ll join the everlasting song, and crown Him Lord of all.

Bailout Numbers Hard to Imagine

I just saw this story on Bill Koenig's World Watch Daily. It's from Bloomberg.com. They say the federal government has "spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year..." I think most people (including myself) have a difficult time relating to the magnitude of that number. This is the kind of number scientists and engineers write in scientific notation as 1.28 x 10¹³. Written out, it looks like this:

12,800,000,000,000

That's still hard to put into perspective, so I wondered how many years it would take if we counted to this number in seconds. Turns out (if I did this right) that if you count once every second, it would take about 405,608 years. Even if you counted by thousands every second you wouldn't finish in your lifetime. You probably wouldn't even make it a quarter of the way there.

Now that we have this perspective, we can understand just how reckless and irresponsible most of our politicians are. It is utterly ludicrous.

I don't know what else to say...

...except that if you are a Christian, it is imperative that you remain steadfast in your faith in God's plan of redemption.

Matthew 6:31, 33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? ... But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

***(added on 5/12/09)*** Another way of looking at this that I heard recently is this. If $1 million were spent every day since the incarnation of Jesus Christ, you still would not have made it to your first $1 trillion yet. (In fact it only comes out to about $730 billion which sounds like the amount spent on just one of the many bailouts Congress has recently approved.)