What You Command

…fire and hail, snow and mist,

stormy wind fulfilling his word!

Psalm 148:8

What You command Lord

comes to me…

all by Your love and tender decree

fire to purge me of my dross

hail to humble me in my loss

snow to freeze my world all around

mist to keep me on the ground

stormy winds to blow me toward

the refuge of Your comforting Word

What You command, Lord

is good for me…

You are preparing me for eternity

endless ages without tears

no more grief and no more fears

when with Your saints around Your throne

my heart is captured, bound to You alone

redeemed, regathered with all those I love

in an embrace forever together with You above

What You command, Lord

I will receive…

ready by faith to always believe

this fire will not burn all away

this hail will not trample what You want to stay

this snow will brighten all my landscape

this mist will quench thirst, my soul to sate

this stormy wind will bring trembling thunder

and I… I will worship in all this wonder!