Monday, January 18, 2010

Helped Hitherto

"Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.... and thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines..... Then Samuel took a stone... and called the name of it Ebenezer [stone of help], saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us" (1 Samuel 7:5-12). "They have pierced My hands and My feet.... He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath He hid His face from him, but when he cried unto Him, He heard" (Psalm 22:16,24).

The Lord has helped us hitherto,
As Samuel rightly said.
Yet how much more we find it true,
Where grace and truth have led!

For Christ our Lord and Savior came
To take the sinner's place.
Our Stone of Help is in His name
And in His saving grace.

Upon the cross He seemed so weak,
Yet that is where He thundered
To help all those who for Him seek,
As Satan's house was plundered.

Though Christ was the rejected Stone,
He has become the Head.
He suffered for us all alone,
Then rose up from the dead.

Hitherto, we each can say,
O Lord, You helped my soul.
And so it is as day by day
We give to You control.

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