In Christ We Make Our Boast

Christ and his cross is all our boast

The myst'ries that we speak

Are scandal to the worldy wise

But give strength to the weak

But souls enlightened from above

With joy receive the word;

They see what wisdom, power, and love

Shine in their dying Lord.

The vital savor of his name

Restores their fainting breath;

But unbelief perverts the same

To guilt, despair, and death.

Till God diffuse his graces down,

Like showers of heav'nly rain,

In vain the sower sows the ground,

And preachers plant in vain.

But in the power of the cross

The Spirit works with might

So renewed minds and redeemed souls

Now walk within the light.

So in the cross we make our boast

And embrace the scandalon

We weak ones shall mount up with wings

Till our work on earth is done.

Anthony Foster

After Isaac Watts

July 13, 2018