God of salvation

God of salvation, make us to be

Witnesses for you, saved and set free.

Help us be faithful, O God of love; 

Fit us for service like hand and glove.

We are your children all over the earth,

Made in your image and filled with your worth!

God of salvation, make us to be

Witnesses for you, saved and set free.

 

This is our mission, this is our care:

Widow and orphan having their share,

Lowly uplifted, hungry ones fed,

All to have shelter, roof overhead.

We are your children all over the earth,

Made in your image and filled with your worth!

God of salvation, make us to be

Witnesses for you, saved and set free.

 

As scripture tells us in words so true,

How we treat these is how we treat you.

Sharing the gifts you faithfully give:

May this be always how we will live.

We are your children all over the earth,

Made in your image and filled with your worth!

God of salvation, make us to be

Witnesses for you, saved and set free.

 

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, June 2023.

MUSIC: Tune MFURAHINI, HALELUYA, Tanzanian melody.

 

 

Not all of my hymns are written with any great lofty spiritual motivation. Sometimes I just manufacture a challenge for myself. In this case, it was pointed out in one of my classes today that "love," an obvious candidate for a lot of hymn texts, didn't have a great set of rhyming words once you got beyond "above" and "dove." Of course, I had to come up with a text that found a different rhyming word. *Of course* I did. Nonetheless, with a little touching up here and there this could be a useful hymn, and at minimum getting acquainted with this tune is a definite win.