Powerful Rescues

By Rhiannonw

Sun, 05 Jan 2020
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Each year they remembered
how they had been saved,
their slavery severed
for God intervened.
Remembered the power when
that Pharoah was King –
subdued in the hour when
our God conquered him.

Selecting them out for
Egyptians despised    
this Sovereign much greater
than schemes they’d devised.
Now Christians remember
their judgement’s release,
when Jesus, their Saviour    
redeemed them to peace.

The power of the devil
in binding to sin
was broken and evil
can no longer reign
in all those who truly
receive offered grace –
now free, captured fully
in God’s good embrace.

The Israelites tasted
his power that sustained
with kindness that lasted
just as he ordained.
Our journey’s unfolding
along hardship’s way
we trust his upholding
from now day by day.

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

http://rhiannonshymns.co.uk/

Tune: 11 11 11 11 eg St Luke (tune of 'Thy mercy, my God is the theme of my song' or ‘How firm a foundation’ or Montgomery (tune of 'How firm a foundation')

 

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

King of kings, Lord of lords. For us the chosen people, salvation and mercy sometimes comes suddenly and unexpectedly. Just hang on! The words are beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could hear your hymns actually being sung. I'm not really familiar with the "tunes" the sheet music either.

Maybe? Some? Sometime! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Tom. I did sing some onto Soundcloud sometime, maybe do some more sometime!

The full outworking of salvation of the journey's end can seem a trial to wait for, but upheld, and we know we have it coming and forgiveness now when we accept Jesus Christ and the salvation he won for his children! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

The word "salvation" is used not only for that Rhiannon but also for freeing from physical threats and danger, oppression or exile of God's people. Could be? Maybe I did it wrong your word "rescue" is perhaps better. The word "delivered" is even more ambigious.

This was refering to "pharoah" and the worldly "power of the devil". There are many stories in the Bible where Isreal was saved by direct intervention.

As for the journey's end, the earthly destination, maybe it's like an operation where you get narcosis and sleep and wake up when it's over. I choose to think of death as sleep.

All the best! Tom