based on the Book of Haggai Not ours to know the reasons for all that God has planned, the days and times and seasons secure within his hand. From days of drought unbroken, of harvests unfulfilled, the Lord himself has spoken: there comes a time to build. From sins that yet enslave us, from love grown faint and cold, be swift, O Lord, to save us, draw near us as of old. In mercy, peace and blessing your love be shed abroad, our hearts of hearts possessing, the temple of the Lord. What tongue can tell the story, or sing Messiah's worth, the Christ who comes in glory to shake the powers of earth? Exalt him, all creation, the Lamb for sinners slain, desire of every nation in God's eternal reign!