'God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year'
This is the cry of faith of all who believe that God's Day draws near.
As violence rampages around they sing that the Day shall be
When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.
Still in a violent, restless world a cry like theirs is heard,
'All we see in this world shall be reconciled by Christ who is God's Word'
As violence rages hold to this, for our faith will help us see
That the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.
What can we who would walk God's way do to make such violence cease?
How will all of the hurting human world come to know the Prince of Peace?
What can we do to bring that world to the Day that shall surely be
When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea?
Live by faith in the risen Christ whose ways are ways of peace
Live by faith, wait and pray, live for love till war and violent ways decease.
Live by faith, believe and proclaim the truth that sets us free -
That the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.
For by the sign of the dying Lord shall the ways of God prevail,
Far from all human power shall the Cross make God's own purpose real;
By Christ the dying risen Lord the world God's Day shall see
When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.
Tune Benson (Irregular) BHB (green book) 371