At Christ Presbyterian Church, we often sing “Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing” as a concluding hymn for our Sunday corporate worship. This beautiful hymn was composed by the 18th-century British Baptist minister John Fawcett, who also penned the beloved classic “Blest Be the Tie That Binds.”
Fawcett’s lyrics beautifully portray life on this earth as a journey through a wilderness which is one of the major biblical themes. Daily life in this fallen world can be a spiritually exhausting journey that requires continuous divine refreshment. Recognizing this weariness, the first verse opens with a heartfelt prayer for grace:
“O refresh us, o refresh us,
Trav’ling through this wilderness.
While the hymn acknowledges our earthly struggles, the third stanza shifts focus to the believer’s eschatological hope. As Christians, we live with an eternal perspective—ready at any moment to step out of time and into eternity. The final verse declares that when our earthly days are complete, and God in His infinite love calls us home, we can answer that final summons with absolute gladness.
Because Jesus Christ has completely conquered the grave, we no longer have to fear death. Death is no longer a dreaded foe, but rather a reluctant usher that carries us directly into glory:
So that when thy love shall call us,
Saviour, from the world away,
Let no fear of death appall us,
Glad thy summons to obey:
May we ever, may we ever,
Reign with thee in endless day.
Is that your hope and confidence, dear reader? Can you say that you are ready and glad to obey the summons of your savior to leave this world and reign with him in endless day? That confidence comes by faith in Christ alone.
Confex Makhalira 
Reading this has reminded me of a great puritan by the name William Perkins, his treatise (A Salve for a Sick Man) to Lady Lucy, countess of Bedford. He tried to give us, believers, strength to face death with smiles from Solom’s Ecclesiastes 7:3 “The day of death is better than the day of birth”
I long for that day when I will be saved from the very presence of death. What amazes me most of the times is that every time I sing a hymn or song that talks about meeting the Lord, I smile, my heart filled with so much longing and hope.
My question to your pastor is, why don’t we have so many people preaching on glorification like we have on justification and other great doctrines even among us reformed preachers?