Sunday's Hymn: God as Judge

Adore and Tremble, for Our God 

Adore and tremble, for our God
Is a consuming fire!
His jealous eyes His wrath inflame,
And raise His vengeance higher.

Almighty vengeance, how it burns!
How bright His fury glows!
Vast magazines of plagues and storms
Lie treasured for his foes.

Those heaps of wrath, by slow degrees,
Are forced into a flame;
But kindled, oh! how fierce they blaze!
And rend all nature’s frame.

At His approach the mountains flee,
And seek a watery grave:
The frighted sea makes haste away,
And shrinks up every wave.

Through the wide air the mighty rocks
Are swift as hailstones hurled;
Who dares engage His fiery rage
That shakes the solid world?

Yet, mighty God, Thy sovereign grace
Sits regent on the throne;
The refuge of Thy chosen race
When wrath comes rushing down.

Thy hand shall on rebellious kings
A fiery tempest pour,
While we beneath Thy sheltering wings
Thy just revenge adore.

—-Isaac Watts 

More on God as judge:

• God as Judge
  

 Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• Who Shall the Lord’s Elect Condemn? at joythruChrist
  
• The First Sunday in Lent at Magic Statistics
• More About Jesus at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 6, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
  
• Thy Works, not Mine, O Christ at Hiraeth
  
• My Faith Has Found A Resting Place at Seasoning of the Heart
• The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended at Whatever Things…

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Comments

[Wendy West]

Rebecca:
Thanks for this sobering, yet in many ways encouraging, reminder of God as judge. How grateful I am that one day all will be right and He will separate out the sheep and the goats. I long for the day when Revelation 21: 6 to 9 becomes a reality. Grateful for His Grace, Wendy