The Lord Is King!
The Lord Is King!
The Lord is King! Lift up Thy voice,
O earth; and all ye heav’ns, rejoice:
From world to world the joy shall ring,
“The Lord omnipotent is King!”
The Lord is King! Who then shall dare
Resist His will, distrust His care,
Or murmur at His wise decrees,
Or doubt His royal promises?
The Lord is King! Child of the dust,
The Judge of all the earth is just;
Holy and true are all His ways:
Let ev’ry creature speak His praise.
Alike pervaded by His eye,
All parts of His dominion lie;
This world of ours, and worlds unseen,
And thin the boundary between.
One Lord, one empire, all secures;
He reigns, and life and death are yours:
Through earth and heav’n one song shall ring,
“The Lord omnipotent is King!”
WHEN JOSIAH CONDER left school in 1802 at the age of thirteen, he didn’t leave the world of books. His father was a bookseller in London, and young Conder joined his father’s business. At twenty-five he became publisher of a magazine and later the editor of a newspaper. An evangelical, he frequently opposed the action of the established church and faced determined opposition. He said his best hymns were written in times of trial or change.
When Conder lay dying at the age of sixty-six, he asked to have his poems read. The last stanza of one of them, which he asked to have read three times, is “Beset with fears and cares, in Him my heart is strong. All things in life and death are theirs, who to the Lord belong.” One of his children said after the third reading, “Now you can sleep on that.” “Oh yes,” responded Josiah, “and die upon it.”
Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder: “Praise the Lord! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.”
Revelation 19:6
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