The Rock

By Rhiannonw

Sun, 26 Sep 2021
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[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

Revelation: truth made known,
our real need and pathway shown,
Christ, God’s final prophet taught,
knew our pardon must be bought.

Righteous, holy, he would die,
only thus grace could supply,
crucifixion, awful scene – 
killed, so that he could redeem.

Resurrected, work complete,
opened grave, Satan’s defeat,
coming soon, his Spirit sent
kindly leads men to repent.

Reigning , drawing some to turn,
of his mercy, love to learn.
church – believers gather, own
King  whose care and rule they’ve known.

Tune: 7 7 7 7

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer, my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. Psalm 18:2

 

 

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Submitted by Nolan on

"Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee". Experimenting with a new style? Beautiful, clever and it rhymes too!  

"Righteous, holy, he would die, only thus grace could supply, coming soon, his Spirit sent kindly leads men to repent."

See you Rhiannon! &

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you. Yes, that is a wonderful hymn, I think inspired from hiding in a cleft of a rock in a thunderstorm.

I had heard the letters of Rock used as an acronym, and decided to see if I could do a number of verses using the letters each time and cover much ground in a different way to try to make things memorable.

Thanks for commenting. God bless. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

“Not the labors of my hands can fulfill thy law's demands;

could my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow,

all for sin could not atone; thou must save, and thou alone”.

What beautiful English! Did you notice the tune is exactly the same (as yours?) I think you can actually sing your words to the same music as the original Methodist &&

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, beautiful, and so simply clear as well. So many feel they have to somehow earn God's love and pardon, and struggle as it is impossible, and need to see that when that pardon is simply accepted because of Christ's death for us, then he enables us to start serving him somwhat better!

I think Toplady's hymn has 6 lines to each verse, so it fits, but one would have to repeat the last two lines ofeach verse. It could be sung to 'Innocents' (tune of 'Children of the heavenly King') or 'Easter Hymn' tune of 'Christ the Lord is risen today' which needs 'Alleluia!' (Praise God!) at the end of every line. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi,

Cleverly done, Rhiannon, to get all the words in the right place. Good rhyme and rhythm too. Enjoyed!

hilary    smiley

 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you! and thanks for letting me know! Rhiannon