To our God, who holds you strong

To our God, who holds you strong and will not let your soul succumb,

As foretold by Christ the Lord, who was and is and is to come:

Through our Christ, to God be glory, now, forever, Amen!

 

Once concealed in deepest mystery, kept in secret long ago,

Now revealed in prophet story that the world may come to know:

Through our Christ, to God be glory, now, forever, Amen!

 

By command of God eternal is this truth now made full-known,

So we folk of God's creation might true faith both live and own:

Through our Christ, to God be glory, now, forever, Amen!

 

Jesus Christ our only glory, low-born once, will come again;

He who was despised, rejected will on earth forever reign:

Through our Christ, to God be glory now, forever, Amen!

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, August 2020 (after Romans 16:25-27)

MUSIC: Suggested tune REGENT SQUARE, Henry Thomas Smart, 1867

 

 

 

Another hymn for the Advent Hymnary project.