Hope

Ever have a song in your heart?

The one that keeps going and you can't get it out?

This week I am studying HOPE.

Such a short word. One that I thought I understood, but the more I study it, the more I learn I need it, want it, desire it and hold onto it daily.

I grew with hymns. My Grandpa sang them, played them on the trumpet and I heard them at church and home on a daily basis. So naturally this one popped into my mind this morning.

"My Hope Is Built"

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

Refrain

On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

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His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.

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When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

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