Code of Confidence

"We are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: For we walk by faith not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.... For the love of Christ constraineth us" (2 Corinthians 5:6-14).

If from the body absent,
We are present with the Lord:
And therefore we are confident,
In the things we look toward.

In this code of confidence
We walk by faith, not sight;
It does not make a difference,
If men commend or slight.

For surely in this present place
We labor for God's pleasure,
Who daily gives to us His grace
And strength in proper measure.

Thus with joyful confidence,
Constrained by Jesus' love,
We'll labor till He calls us hence
To dwell with Him above.