Monday Meditation: For The Might Of Thine Arm

 

"The eternal God is your refuge and dwelling place, and underneath
are the everlasting arms; He drove the enemy before you
and thrust them out, saying, Destroy!"
(Deuteronomy 33:27)

Pilgrims Going To Church
19th Century American lithograph

Image courtesy/Granger Historical Picture Archive/

Fine Art America

For the might of Thine arm we bless Thee, our fathers' God;

Thou hast kept Thy pilgrim people by the strength of Thy staff and rod;

Thou hast called us to the journey which faithless feet ne'er trod;

for the might of Thine arm we bless Thee, our God, our fathers' God.

For the love of Christ constraining that bound their hearts as one;

for the faith in truth and freedom in which their work was done;

for the peace of God's evangel wherewith their feet were shod;

for the might of Thine arm we bless You, our God, our fathers' God.

We are watchers of a beacon whose light must never die;

we are guardians of an altar that shows You ever nigh;

we are the children of the ransomed who sleep beneath the sod;

for the might of Thine arm, we bless You, our God, our fathers' God.

May the shadow of Thy presence around our camp be spread;

Baptize us with the courage with which Thou blessed our dead;

O keep us in the pathway their saintly feet have trod;

for the might of Thine arm we bless Thee, our God, our fathers' God.

Amen

"For The Might Of Thine Arm"
(1904)
Charles Silvester Horne
(1865-1914)
English Congregational Minister
Member of the British Parliament
and noted orator