on Isaiah 43:1,2

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

The trials may heap on us – when will they cease?
Their strength can quite suddenly roar and increase.
The faithless don’t wonder – just grumble and moan;
but saints are perplexed at the pain they have known.
    ‘Fear not, I’ve redeemed you, I’ve called you by name.
    My purpose and mercy are always the same.’

He says that his people will pass through the fire,
the waters that seem to rise higher and higher.
He knows what he purposes for his redeemed,
and makes no mistakes, for they must be refined.

For those whom he’s called out to come for new life
are precious to him, and they must live by faith,
he’s loved and redeemed them, and when they must die,
they’ll come through with Jesus to glory on high.

Your God will be with you – he knows where you go.
What others are bearing we don’t always know.
The force of the storm cannot wrench from his love,
nor damage your future in glory above.

Tune: 11 11 11 11 + (chorus 65 65) eg Gweddiwch Drosom (Ora Pro Nobis) by Arfon Williams, Llanrug

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