Strange Strategy

"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).

There is a building strategy
That often is employed
That always ends in tragedy
With workmanship destroyed.

There is a battle strategy
That is a great mistake
That wastes the watchman's energy,
Who vainly stays awake.

It is the strange philosophy
That we do not need God.
It is the godless vanity
The world will applaud.

There is a better strategy
That God Himself endorses:
Build on faith obediently
And battle by God's forces.

Let this be our building code
And this our battle plan:
To work by wisdom God bestowed,
And put no trust in man.