Song 81

Gratitude for Divine Patience

(2 Peter 3:15)

1. Jehovah God, your pow’r sublime

Made all things beauteous in their time.

To this fact all things testify,

Throughout the earth and in the sky.

Though from such beauty springs delight

For all who love the truth and right,

Yet still more beauty they will see

In triumph of your sov’reignty.

2. Great God, your zeal for righteousness

Could end at once all wickedness;

But that salvation may be ours,

You have held back destructive pow’rs.

Now all who gladly your name bear,

Your praises sing, give thanks in pray’r

For patience shown, and long to see

The triumph of your sov’reignty.

3. Your patience we would not abuse

But use the time to preach good news,

Show men your attributes divine,

Which in your Word so clearly shine.

Help us to make the way so plain

That they salvation too may gain

And then with us the beauty see

Of your triumphant sov’reignty.