There is a great benefit to journaling. Today, I just feel empty and yet I know that I'm in Christ. I have eternal life but "feel" eternal death. There is a great existential reality of walking with Christ in a dying and hopeless world. Therefore, this hymn is about our hope that cannot fade away nor can it be taken away for Christ, the God-man, is our hope (1 Tim 1:1). In essence, this hymn is to stir up our affections for our Savior who is the way into eternal hope. My soul seems to be in a downcast gloom, yet hope in God who will provide redemption in full, our eternal inheritance, and will give our resurrected bodies. Glory to Christ who is our eternal Door and Hope.
He is our door and hope
His blood, our means to cope
Eternal life our great promise
Glory to God, our eternal Assurance
By faith we enter in Him
Lamb of God who took our sin
That good Shepherd we trust
Resurrected life given to His creatures of dust
Despair and gloom have their grip
Eternal death gone by one sip
In suffering and labor we toil still
Rejoicing in hope even if they kill
The uncertainty of riches will not last
Our loving Captain - our Anchor and Mast
He is our door into eternal life
Our gracious Husband who is coming for His wife
