His Hand

Consider out Almighty God
     And the power of His hand
That outstretched, created everything:
     The skies, the sea, the land.

But He could not be finished
     With this, that He began,
Until, in His own likeness,
     Our Lord created man.

But His hand had only started
     The work that it would do.
Through the ages He would show its strength
    And loving kindness, too.

This hand destroyed the world by flood
     And built it up again;
It upheld Job throughout his trials
     To prove he had no sin.

This hand delivered Israel...
     He set His people free.
His hand directed Moses
     And parted the Red Sea.

This hand anointed David
     As king of all the land,
But when he sinned, it brought him low,
     This gentle, fearsome hand.

It caused a pure conception...
     A virgin to give birth
To God's own Son, who came to live
     And die for all on earth.

This perfect hand makes the sun to shine
     And the rain to quench dry ground
And also makes the thunder
     And lightening to abound.

A hand that cannot ever die,
     That is and will always be.
A hand that's capable of everything
     Is always holding me.