{"id":25588,"date":"2025-08-21T00:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25588"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:35:48","slug":"lord-raise-me-above-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/08\/lord-raise-me-above-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord, Raise Me Above The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Lord, raise my soul above the ground,<\/p>\n<p>And draw my thoughts to Thee;<\/p>\n<p>Teach me, with sweet and solemn sound,<\/p>\n<p>To praise the eternal Three.<\/p>\n<p>Long ere the lofty skies were spread,<\/p>\n<p>Jehovah filled His throne;<\/p>\n<p>Or Adam formed, or angels made,<\/p>\n<p>The Maker lived alone.<\/p>\n<p>2 His boundless years can ne\u2019er decrease,<\/p>\n<p>But still maintain their prime;<\/p>\n<p>Eternity\u2019s His dwelling-place,<\/p>\n<p>And ever is His time;<\/p>\n<p>While like a tide our minutes flow,<\/p>\n<p>The present and the past,<\/p>\n<p>He fills His own immortal NOW,<\/p>\n<p>And sees our ages waste.<\/p>\n<p>3 The sea and sky must perish too,<\/p>\n<p>And vast destruction come!<\/p>\n<p>The creatures! look how old they grow,<\/p>\n<p>And wait their fiery doom.<\/p>\n<p>Well; let the sea shrink all away,<\/p>\n<p>And flame melt down the skies,<\/p>\n<p>My God shall live an endless day,<\/p>\n<p>When the old creation dies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25588\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Lord, raise my soul above the ground,<\/p>\n<p>And draw my thoughts to Thee;<\/p>\n<p>Teach me, with sweet and solemn sound,<\/p>\n<p>To praise the eternal Three.<\/p>\n<p>Long ere the lofty skies were spread,<\/p>\n<p>Jehovah filled His throne;<\/p>\n<p>Or Adam formed, or angels made,<\/p>\n<p>The Maker lived alone.<\/p>\n<p>2 His boundless years can ne\u2019er decrease,<\/p>\n<p>But still maintain their prime;<\/p>\n<p>Eternity\u2019s His dwelling-place,<\/p>\n<p>And ever is His time;<\/p>\n<p>While like a tide our minutes flow,<\/p>\n<p>The present and the past,<\/p>\n<p>He fills His own immortal NOW,<\/p>\n<p>And sees our ages waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,1282],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-triune-jehovah","category-isaac-watts-hymns","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25598,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25588\/revisions\/25598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}