Monday's Meditation: Once Pledged By The Cross

 

"If God be for us, who can be against us?"
(Romans 8:31)

"There Came A Wind"

(2012)

Photograph by Phil Koch

Image courtesy/Fine Art America

Once pledged by the cross,

As children of God,

To tread in the steps

Your Captain has trod,

Now, sealed by the Spirit

Of wisdom and might,

Go forward, Christ's soldiers,

Go forward and fight!

Your weapons of war

Are sent from above,

The Spirit's good sword,

The breastplate of love;

Your feet with the Gospel

Of peace be well shod;

Put on the whole armor,

The armor of God.

Full well do ye know

The foe must be met,

Full well do ye feel

That Satan has set

His powers of darkness

In battle array;

But those who are for you

Are stronger than they.

The fight may be long,

But triumph is sure,

And rest comes at last

To those who endure;

The rest that remaineth,

The victory won,

And-dearer than all things-

Your Captain's "Well done."

Then, on to the fight

'Gainst sin and the world,

Stand fast in His strength,

His banner unfurled;

And, sealed by the Spirit

Of wisdom and might,

Go forward, Christ's soldiers,

Go forward and fight.

"Once Pledged By The Cross"
(1901)
Alice Mary Bode
(1849-1924)
English hymn writer
Daughter of John Ernest Bode

Fall On Your Knees

(2011)

Zemer Levav