To God Our Maker Be Thanksgiving

 

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Tune: Rendez A Dieu (LSB 792)

 

1 To God our Maker be thanksgiving!

All life comes from His mighty love;

All you who by His grace are living,

Praise Him in whom we live and move;

All that is good and true and holy

In Him finds every joy and spring;

Come, creatures, praise the Father solely

In Christ for whom is everything!

 

2 So too this child is Yours, my Savior;

In wisdom You have fashioned her;

Christ, claim her now as Yours forever,

Within her heart Your Spirit stir,

All that is in her of my nature

From Adam we inherited

Forgive and make a new-born creature

With life that from Your body bled.

 

3 Come, King, and show Your mighty power,

For all authority is Yours;

Move heaven, and upon her shower

The mercy from Your wounds that pours

All your obedience in the water

That clothes her in Your righteousness,

Come, claim her as Your Father’s daughter,

You, who the little children bless. 

 

4 Then I will live with her forever,

New creatures of our Lord and Head,

With all who found Your grace and favor

In paths to which Your Word has led,

Which soon will open heaven’s portal,

Where all Your saints in courts above

Will sing in white-robed choirs immortal

To You whose name and work is love. 

22 March A+D 2018