Today at church, I got to play such a beautiful song! I am the pianist for Primary, the children’s organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The primary chorister asked a man in my ward (congregation), impromptu, to sing this new song in front of all the children, to introduce the song. She knew that the man used to be a professional opera singer and would be OK with being asked at the last minute. I hadn’t ever played the song before, and the good brother hadn’t ever sung the song before. But we made a great team! We both made mistakes but we both knew that was OK, especially since it was new to both of us. The children were absolutely mesmerized by his resonant voice and the gorgeous melody and harmony intermixed. I thoroughly enjoyed playing it as well.

Yes, the Savior is coming again! Lift up your voice! Rejoice!!!

Here’s the song below, two versions.

It’s so beautiful! I love the lyrics and the flowing, rolling tune, both by composer Lane Johnson.

Then this video below shows the lyrics.

Here are some of my favorite images from the video above.

Note: the song doesn’t say “the lamb and the lion” will feed together. The composer learned by studying the scriptures that nowhere in the scriptures does it says the lamb and the lion will lie down together, or do anything together, in the Millennium. The scriptures do, however, talk about the wolf and the lamb. See Isaiah 65:25.

Here’s a wonderful interview with the composer, Lane Johnson. The song started as a dream, decades ago, when he dreamt that he would someday write a hymn about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In the video he tells how the song came to fruition after his dream. Then he tells a tragic yet beautiful story of how he came to have a family of 11 children.

Thank you Brother Johnson for this beautiful, inspiring song! You can get the sheet music here. It’s one of the new songs from the new collection of Hymns: for Home and Church.