How Firm a Foundation

We sang this hymn twice in church on Sunday and it really touched me. I think often times I don't pay attention to the words in the hymns we sing because they are so familiar. It was nice to actually focus on the words. :) And while reading the words again later I found that I absolutely love the fourth through the seventh verses. This is my newfound favorite hymn.

How Firm a Foundation
Robert Keen

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in his excellent word!
What more can he say, than to you he hath said,
who unto the Savior for refuge have fled?

In ev'ry condition-in sickness, in health,
in poverty's vale or abounding in wealth,
at home or abroad, on the land or the sea.
As they days may demand, so thy succor shall be.

Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed,
for I am thy God and will still give thee aid.
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not thee o'erflow
for I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply.
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.

E'en down to old age, all my people shall prove
my sov'reign, eternal, unchangeable love;
and then, when gray hair their temples adorn,
like lambs shall they still in my bosom be bourne.

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
I will not, I cannot, desert to his foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake!