SONG OF THE HAMMER

 

 

Testing and trials and suffering's strife...Felt in the forge and the foundry of life

 

Test the temper and the timbre of integrity...Revealing the character's quality.

 

So the song of the hammer shall form me.through suffering Christ is my desire...

 

My hard heart shall surely be tempered, glowing with the refiner's holy fire.

 

From my rust He forges a weapon that causes all evil to flee

 

This sword of the spirit I brandish, and Christ shall have victory in me!

 

He fires up the furnace flame, to purify me is His aim.

 

The hard brittle scrap He heats, and with grace in His hammer beats

 

This rod of rust into the dust to form a sceptre and a weapon from the rod

 

A terrible tool in the hands of Almighty God...

 

So the song of the hammer shall form me...through suffering Christ is my desire...

 

My hard heart shall surely be tempered, glowing with the refiner's holy fire.

 

From my rust He forges a weapon that causes all evil to flee

 

This sword of the spirit I brandish, and Christ shall have victory in me!

 

God's hammer wounds softly and tenderly, Removing all but His image in me,

 

And breaking sin's chains He frees us, conforming my likeness to Jesus...