Our God is great

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Book Number:
  • 1004

Our God is great, he made the seas
and holds them in his hand.
He weighs the mountains on his scales,
they move at his command.

2. He raises rulers in the world,
he breathes, and they are gone.
Like dust they’re scattered on the wind
by God, the holy one.

3. Our God is love; he tends his flock
and holds them in his arm.
He gently clasps them to his heart
and keeps them safe from harm.

4. Our God is kind; he never tires,
he always understands.
He gives his strength to weary ones,
supports them with his hands.

5. They’ll run and not grow tired or faint,
their strength will be restored,
they’ll soar on high on eagles’ wings,
whose hope is in the Lord.

© Stephen Crowter/Praise Trust
Stephen Crowter

Approaching God - Creator and Sustainer

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Tune

  • Stracathro
    Stracathro
    Metre:
    • CM (Common Metre: 86 86)
    Composer:
    • Hutcheson, Charles

The story behind the hymn

Isaiah 40 provided the basis for this hymn, written in 1986 when the author was living in Chessington, Surrey

A look at the author

Crowter, Stephen James

b Hastings, E Sussex 1968. BSc in Chemistry and Business Studies; he currently runs his own business in Coventry, ‘Surecar Consultants’, sourcing cars to order. His first hymns were written in the late 1980s, usually on Sunday evenings in response to a sermon. The first to be published are those in Praise!, one of which also features in CH (2004 edn); among other writings is his part-autobiographical Surprise Package: When God wrecks our plans (2003). He belongs to Lower Ford St Baptist Ch in Coventry, W Midlands. His brother Philip (Phil) was a Baptist pastor and internationally-known writer of Bible notes who died in 2008 at the age of 46. Nos.394, 561, 1004, 1030, 1035, 1056, 1095, 5013.