Defense Defined

"O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me... Because of his strength will I wait upon Thee: for God is my Defense" (Psalm 59:1 ,9).  "Depart not from the words of My mouth... lest thou give... thy years unto the cruel" (Proverbs 5:7,9).  "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine Help" (Hosea 13:9).  "They... found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind" (Luke 8:35). 

Unless the Lord was my Defense,

I surely would have been destroyed. 

I have no other confidence

Or other strategy employed. 

I surely would have played the fool

Without my Savior's clear instruction

And would have given to the cruel

My fleeting years by vain seduction. 

My soul's defense is in My Savior

Who died to save me by His grace.  

He sheltered me with loving favor

When He became my Hiding Place. 

Lord, like that man in his right mind

Whom you delivered from perdition,

You are my soul's Defense defined;

I need no other definition.