Original Song by Mike Bias and Keith Schubert, sung to Love Divine all Loves Excelling
God of ages, God of Creation
You made all, but naught made thee.
Unchanging in your perfection,
God is constant, man does vary.
The grass withers the flower fades,
but the word of our God shall stand.
Finite man's feeble tirades
Cannot shake thy self-existent hand.
In thy goodness is no sinning,
morally perfect in thoughts and deeds.
Ordained before the beginning,
You provisioned all wants and needs
Take therefore no thought for the morrow,
God provisions each day's trials.
While we might suffer and sorrow
All things work good on whom God smiles.
Our offense He can't overlook,
Perfect justice He does possess.
We could not, God's wrath Jesus took,
Now we're clothed in His righteousness.
His own son, He did not spare,
But delivered Him up for us,
Give to us He did declare
All things in Christ Jesus.
Before all time, was God only
Perfectly content in Himself
Man can not add to His glory
He is all, He needs nothing else.
We have naught in ourselves
Jesus fills our inadequacy.
Joy, O Joy is this thought
We shall share in God's intimacy.