Be sure that God who calls us, whom yet unseen we love, will order what befalls us from his high throne above. His mercy sought and found us beyond what tongue can tell; his providence around us determines all things well. We come by grace forgiven from earthly sin and stain, to share the life of heaven in God's eternal reign; we trace salvation's story through all that God has done, and ours at last in glory the likeness of his Son. If God himself be for us what more can grace supply? It was the love he bore us that gave his Son to die; our God whose hand upholds us, redeemed, renewed, restored, whose steadfast love enfolds us, the love of Christ our Lord