Ark of rest

 

 

The waters are troubled yet they cleanse all the earth

 

 

they baptize the whole world and they lead to new birth

 

 

they are the new beginning and yet they are the end

 

 

They ciover the fallen and they destroy men's sin

 

 

But like the dove Noah sent out oer the waters to fly And returned to the ark for a rest

 

 

We will find a sweet home in the sweet bye and bye,

 

 

in the meantime we take refuge in the ark we are blessed.

 

 

 

For dead men need life before they begin to have pardon for guilt and redemption's release

 

 

Then the power to live and freedom from sin, love and acceptance and purpose and peace

 

 

 

the storm was still raging on the day Jesus died

 

 

Tears of salvation flowed, water burst from his side

 

 

To cover and cleanse all the world with its flood

 

And this time its power was mixed with God's blood

 

 

The water is troubled and now God's latter rain

 

 

Pours out of heaven to cleanse us again

 

 

And now its purpose is not to desatroy

 

But to flood all the world with salvation and joy

 

 

There is still an ark of rest, a refuge for the guilt oppressed,

 

 

Where the unity of the spirit reigns  in the body of Christ and all it contains