WenshaliCGsus - Instrumental Version

The hymn portion of this beautiful haunting amalgamation of traditional melody and original music composed by Nicholas Mazzio is attributed to an anonymous source around the beginning of the 1800s. Some say it may have been written by American Baptist Minister John Leland. But the citation has gone unconfirmed, and it is not similar to the others attributed to him.
One thing is certain, the longing for our heavenly home is apparent in the lyric. It is a rousing and inspiring call to put this world behind us and remember where we are going, and a faithful presentation of the present spiritual warfare that we are facing.
When we can “realize”, in other words, “make it a reality in our minds”, the truth and actuality of the promises of God we will begin to live a transported life. This world press is in so darkly. We begin to think that our present state is all that we are destined for.
But God promises us otherwise. He tells us of a home that he has prepared for us on high where there is no death, where there is no sorrow, where there is no crying, and where we can live and reign with him forever.
Right now we are in the bondage of sin and death.
But it can all be as a dream, as a moment that passes as we spend more and more time meditating on his promises and on the World to come.
And the things of this world will grow strangely dim as we turn our eyes upon Him.
 

https://hymnary.org/text/o_when_shall_i_see_jesus_and_reign_with

https://hymnary.org/text/o_when_shall_i_see_jesus_and_reign_with#Author

https://hymnary.org/person/Leland_J

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”
Revelation 1:7