Deliverance Devised

“We must needs die… yet doth [God] devise means, that His banished be not expelled from Him” (2 Samuel 14:14).  “I cried unto Thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my Refuge and my Portion in the land of the living” (Psalm 142:5).  “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself” (Proverbs 22:3).  “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a Curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” (Galatians 3:13). 

We go the way of all the earth: 

It is appointed that we die. 

Our days are numbered from our birth. 

The grave awaits where we shall lie. 

Like vapor which so soon has vanished,

Our days on earth come to an end,

And yet from God we are not banished

If we have known Him as our Friend. 

There is a means that is devised

For friendship with our holy God   

When we at last have realized

That our devices all are flawed. 

When we at last to God have cried

And turned to Him to seek His favor,

We find a Refuge where we hide

In Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Let all the earth now stand in awe

That God was moved to love us first!  

We all were guilty under law,

But Jesus Christ for us was cursed!

Upon the cross, that awful tree,

Our Lord was cursed then in our stead! 

To purge our sins eternally,

He was the Lamb to slaughter led! 

We thank You, Lord, for what You did,

Devising such a great salvation! 

In You our souls are safely hid,

Delivered thus from condemnation!