THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS SAINTS

LYRICS

Thanks be to God for his saints of each past generation,
One with us still, in one body, one great congregation;
With them proclaim Jesus forever the same,
Author of life and salvation.

Thanks be to God for his blessings which daily surround us;
Glory to Christ, the redeemer who sought us and found us,
Who from the grave rose, the almighty to save,
Breaking the fetters that bound us.

Thanks be to God for the years that are yet in his keeping,
Trusting each day to the care of a Father unsleeping,
On to the end, Christ our companion and friend,
Joy at the last for our keeping.

Timothy Dudley Smith
Text © 1997 Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.