339. Our God Is Our Salvation

7,6.
by P. Gerhardt
1
Our God is our salvation,
 
Our refuge in distress,
 
What earthly tribulation
 
Can shake our steadfast peace?
2
The ground of our profession
 
Is Jesus and His blood:
 
He gives us the possession
 
Of everlasting good.
3
We know no condemnation,
 
No law that speaks despair:
 
And Satan’s accusation,
 
With Christ, we need not fear.
4
For us there is provided
 
A city fair and new,
 
To it we shall be guided — 
 
Jerusalem’s in view;
5
Our portion there is lying,
 
A destined, heavenly lot;
 
And though we’re daily dying,
 
Our portion withers not.
“I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.” (1 Corinthians 15:31)
6
The heart within us leapeth,
 
And cannot down be cast,
 
Since with our God it keepeth
 
Its never-ending feast.
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” (Psalm 42:11)
7
The sun which, smiling, lights us,
 
Is Jesus Christ alone:
 
And what to song incites us,
 
Is heaven on earth begun.
“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” (John 1:9)
“That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” (Deuteronomy 11:21)
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