My Father God, when on Thy vast creation

Amen! Every time heard this hymn, remind us we are living in Lord mercy, How Great Thou Art.

When in the church, in blest participation,
I see how millions Thine own life possess,
How they are built to form Thy habitation,
Containing Thee, Thy fulness to express!

Amen we love you oh Lord Jesus we praise you thank you for your love we Worship you oh Lord Jesus

We praise Thee Abba Father!

Our Lord is marvelous! Praise the Lord!

Shpirti im kendon O Zot shpetuesi im

Sa I madh je ti, Sa I madh je ti.

Here is a little interesting history on this hymn.

In 1885, at age 26, Swed­ish preach­er Carl G. Bo­berg wrote the words of a po­em en­ti­tled O Store Gud. Sev­er­al years lat­er, Bo­berg at­tend­ed a meet­ing and was sur­prised to hear his po­em be­ing sung to an old Swed­ish me­lo­dy.

In the ear­ly 1920’s, Eng­lish mis­sion­ar­ies Stu­art K. Hine and his wife min­is­tered in Po­land. There they learned the Rus­sian ver­sion of Bo­berg’s poem, O Store Gud, cou­pled with the orig­in­al Swed­ish me­lo­dy.

Later, Hine wrote orig­in­al Eng­lish words and made his own ar­range­ment of the Swed­ish me­lo­dy, which be­came po­pu­lar and is now known as the hymn, How Great Thou Art.

The first three vers­es were in­spired, line up­on line, amidst un­for­get­ta­ble ex­pe­ri­enc­es in the Car­pa­thi­an Mount­ains. In a vil­lage to which he had climbed, Mr. Hine stood in the street sing­ing a Gos­pel Hymn and read­ing aloud, John, Chap­ter Three.

Among the sym­pa­the­tic list­en­ers was a lo­cal vil­lage school­mas­ter. A storm was gath­er­ing, and when it was evi­dent no fur­ther trav­el could be made that night, the friend­ly school­mas­ter of­fered his hos­pi­ta­li­ty.

Awe-in­spir­ing was the migh­ty thun­der ech­oing through the mount­ains, and it was this imp­res­sion that was to bring about the birth of the first verse.

Pushing on, Hine crossed the mount­ain fron­tier in­to Ro­ma­nia and in­to Bu­ko­vi­na. To­geth­er with some young peo­ple, through the woods and for­est glades he wan­dered, and heard the birds sing sweet­ly in the trees. Thus, the sec­ond verse came in­to be­ing.

Verse three was in­spired by the con­ver­sion of ma­ny Car­pa­thi­an mount­ain-dwellers. The fourth verse did not come about un­til Hine’s re­turn to Bri­tain.

So you see several brothers have been inspired from the original. They each in turn adapted it and made it their own.

Certainly the author of the original hymn “How Great thou Art” was experiencing with awe the greatness of God as He wrote his hymn. [that is the original by Carl Boberg]. In This adaptation of “How Great Thou Art” you can see the inspiration of the original hymnodist and how it influenced this adaptation. But there is something more than creation and salvation that made the author of this hymn appreciate the greatness of God. That is the vision and experience of the church portrayed in the last verses. We must also have a vision like this and experience Christ in the church! Then we too will sing, with are entire being, how great, great, great, you are to the Father!

THE PRACTICE OF PRAISE

Now suppose that in our meeting we have taken up the matter of the greatness of God. This is a good point, but there is still not much doctrine here. Yet you may have many things to say. One may rise and say, “Look at the universe; how great God is! ” Another may say, “Look at the millions of saints in the earth; how great God is! ” Then another may say, “Look at all the local churches. See how all the saints are being built up together in love. How great God is! ” Eventually, someone may exclaim, “Look at us. See how He is building us up here as the local church in this place. How great God is! ” This will release a volume of praise. When the meeting has reached the climax, we may then sing the hymn, “How great Thou art! ” We will all be in the heavenlies.

How to Meet

Chapter 23 (LSM)

The grace of Thy salvation, Thy life expressing to the full extent.