From the Dust We Shall Become

 

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Tune: Gott sei Dank (TLH 501)

For Ruth

 

1 From the dust we shall become

Will arise the seeds here sown,

And the One who takes us home

With His voice will claim His own. 

 

2 They are His, who once was dead;

They are His, who lives for them;

They – the ones His word has fed –

Shall behold Jerusalem.

 

2 There the pearls they enter through

Joys to know though here unknown,

They shall see all things made new,

Things they but by faith had known.

 

3 Sister, shed with hope your tears;

Pour them out with faith’s complaint,

Till His comfort soon appears

In His word that calls you saint. 

 

4 Do not hold your grief in you.

Pour your heart out to the Lord;

He will hear and He will do

All He promised in His Word.

 

5 There they rest with Lazarus,

Tears wiped dry from all their eyes,

With the thief, who on the cross

Was bestowed true Paradise.

 

6 There then put your sorrows now

On the One who takes way

All the death your sorrows know,

All the pain you feel today.

 

7 Soon in mansions He prepared

You will leave behind this strife;

All who here Christ’s cross have shared

There receive eternal life. 

 

8 Then the feast we will attend,

Where regrets cannot be known,

Where our joys will have no end,

Where the faithful find their crown. 

            4/26/16