Choice of Champions

“Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it:  except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain” (Psalm 127:1).  “Hear Me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of My mouth…. lest thou give… thy years unto the cruel… and thy labors be in the house of a stranger, and thou mourn at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed” (Proverbs 5:7-11).  “He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory:  but he that seeketh His glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him” (John 7:18).

A house constructed by the Lord,

A city kept by God’s defense,

Shall have His refuge and reward:

The fruit of our obedience.

O Lord, inspect this house and tell

Your servants how we ought to build.

Inspect our ranks, O Lord, as well,

That all Your foes may thus be stilled.

The other choice we have is plain:

To trust our strength till it's depleted,

And thus to labor all in vain

And in the battle be defeated.

O Lord, we thank You for the choice

To trust in You, and You alone,

To hear and to obey Your voice,

And thereby make Your glory known.