Ark for Our Soul

Warm our hearts in your Word

It is our beacon and landmark

Be the roof over our heads

And deliver us by the True Ark.

Like Moses hid in the bullrushes

And was carried straight into your will

As your covenant was carried to battle

You go before us even still.

As Noah obeyed and was saved

Safe within acacia wood walls

Call us from a world that rages

Shelter us from stormy squalls

Waves of wrath won't overtake us

Through endless ages we sail

On suffering’s journey to glory

The Ark for our soul will prevail

Bridge:

Save us from this world of iniquity

While quenching the world's lust for blood

You are the vessel in which we are spared

You carry us through the flood

One ark held the manna and tablets

And kept for a time Aaron's rod

The mercy seat over the ark of our soul

Still takes us to stand before God

Vouchsafe our prayers to the Father

As on this great voyage we embark

To travelers on a storm-tossed sea

For You are the ultimate ark.

Anthony Foster

April 29, 2020