If He makes all things tend to our edification, let us make all things tend to His exultation.
— Thomas Watson
Psalm 139
Lord, thou hast searched me, and dost know
Where’er I rest, where’er I go;
Thou knowest all that I have planned,
And all my ways are in thy hand.
My words from thee I cannot hide;
I feel thy power on every side;
O wondrous knowledge, awful might,
Unfathomed depth, unmeasured height!
— Psalm 139
The Decrees of God
Whate’er my God ordains is right: Holy His will abideth;
I will be still whate’er He doth, And follow where He guideth:
He is my God; Though dark my road,
He holds me that I shall not fall;
Wherefore to Him I leave it all.
— Samuel Rodigast
Exalt the Lord
I know the Lord is high in state,
Above all gods our Lord is great;
The Lord performs what he decrees,
In heaven and earth, in depths and seas.
He makes the vapors to ascend
In clouds from earth’s remotest end;
The lightnings flash at his command,
He holds the tempest in his hand.
— The Psalter
God is Our Refuge
The nations raged, the kingdoms moved,
But when his voice was heard
The troubled earth as stilled to peace
Before his mighty word.
The Lord of Hosts is on our side,
Our safety to secure;
The God of Jacob is for us
A refuge strong and sure.
— From Psalm 46, The Psalter, 1912
