“Whosoever heareth,” shout, shout the sound!
Spread the blessed tidings all the world around:
Tell the joyful news wherever man is found,
“Whosoever will may come.”
“Whosoever cometh need not delay,
Now the door is open, enter while you may;
Jesus is the true, the only Living Way:
“Whosoever will may come.”
“Whosoever will” the promise is secure;
“Whosoever will,” forever just endure;
“Whosoever will!” ’tis life forever more;
“Whosoever will may come.”
Refrain: “Whosoever will, whosoever will!”
Send the proclamation over vale and hill;
“Tis a loving Father calls the wand’rer home:
“Whosoever will may come.”
Philip Bliss, 1870
Read Revelation 22:16-17
(Come. An invitation. We are invited. And it is even more profound when you consider who is making the invitation. Then, once received, it is up to extend that invitation – without restriction or qualification – to everyone else. Come.)
More joyful tidings: We Have Heard the Joyful Sound