An Ode to Sovereign Grace
This devotional poem celebrates God's sovereign grace and absolute freedom in dispensing salvation, affirming that election is entirely God's prerogative and not dependent on human merit or works. The hymn emphasizes God's mysterious but just governance of all things, the security of believers in Christ's unchanging love, and the call to submit trustfully to God's hidden counsels, making it a stirring expression of Reformed theological convictions in verse form.
May not the Sovereign LORD on high, Dispense His favours as He will, Choose some to life while others die, And yet be just and gracious still? Shall man reply against the LORD, And call His Maker’s ways unjust, The thunder of whose dreadful word Can crush a thousand worlds to dust? But, O my soul, if truths so bright Should dazzle and confound thy sight, Yet still His written will obey, And wait the great decisive day! God’s ways are just, His counsels wise, No darkness can prevent His eyes; No...