Verse 1 You’re the Word of God the Father From before the world began Ev’ry star and ev’ry planet Has been fashioned by Your hand All creation holds together By the power of Your voice Let the skies declare Your glory Let the land and seas rejoice Chorus You’re the author of creation You’re the Lord of ev’ry man And Your cry of love rings out Across the lands Verse 2 Yet You left the gaze of angels Came to seek and save the lost And exchanged the joy of heaven For the anguish of a cross With a prayer You fed the hungry With a word You stilled the sea Yet how silently You suffered That the guilty may go free Chorus You’re the author of creation You’re the Lord of ev’ry man And Your cry of love rings out Across the lands Verse 3 With a shout You rose victorious Wresting victory from the grave And ascended into heaven Leading captives in Your wake Now You stand before the Father Interceding for Your own From each tribe and tongue and nation You are leading sinners home Chorus You’re the author of creation You’re the Lord of ev’ry man And Your cry of love rings out Across the lands
I Cannot Tell
Verse 1 I cannot tell why He whom angels worship Should set His love upon the sons of men Or why as Shepherd He should seek the wanderers To bring them back they know not how or when But this I know that He was born of Mary When Bethlehem’s manger was His only home And that He lived at Nazareth and laboured And so the Saviour Saviour of the world is come Verse 2 I cannot tell how silently He suffered As with His peace He graced this place of tears Or how His heart upon the cross was broken The crown of pain to three and thirty years But this I know He heals the broken-hearted And stays our sin and calms our lurking fear And lifts the burden from the heavy-laden For yet the Saviour Saviour of the world is here Verse 3 I cannot tell how He will win the nations How He will claim His earthly heritage How satisfy the needs and aspirations Of east and west of sinner and of sage But this I know all flesh shall see His glory And He shall reap the harvest He has sown And some glad day His sun shall shine in splendour When He the Saviour Saviour of the world is known Verse 4 I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship When at His bidding every storm is stilled Or who can say how great the jubilation When all the hearts of men with love are filled But this I know the skies will thrill with rapture And myriad myriad human voices sing And earth to heaven and heaven to earth will answer At last the Saviour Saviour of the world is King
Collect (Trinity 17)
Lord, we pray that Your grace may always go before and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Grace
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all now and forever. Amen