May none of God’s wonderful works
keep silence, night or morning.
Bright stars, high mountains, the depths of the seas,
sources of rushing rivers:
may all these break into song as we sing
to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
May all the angels in the heavens reply:
Amen! Amen! Amen!
Power, praise, honour, eternal glory
to God, the only Giver of grace.
Amen! Amen! Amen!
— A third century hymn
Cited from Mark A. Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books,1997), 47.
A third-century Christian from Oxyrhynchus inscribed this hymn on an ostracon—a shard of pottery—inviting all to worship the Triune God, the sole Giver of grace. No one comes to the Father except through the Son, and it is only by the Holy Spirit that anyone can say, “Jesus is Lord.” Through the Son and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are drawn to the Father.
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