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My Promise to You

Psalm 36: Priceless

“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.”

Psalm 36:7

Would all of this world’s wealth be mine
Still it could not compare
To your priceless love’s embrace
And ever-tender care

Though every earthly pleasure may
Indulge my every sense
Still my heart would long for you
To ease my soul’s lament

And even if tomorrow held
No threat of Satan’s sting
I would yet seek comfort from
the shadow of your wing

For without you I’m nothing
But through your Son, assured
That his life was given for me
To open heaven’s door.

For in my sin he’s patient and
In my darkness, light
In my sickness, gentle

and in my sorrow, kind

So what in all creation can
Eclipse his matchless grace
For though unworthy, he has died
In my deserved place