"Just When We’ve Sunk in Deep Despair"
TEXT: Mark Ryman (©2004) based on Luke 16:1-13. More hymns at edoxy.com.
TUNE: "Rest" by Frederick C. Maker (1887).

This life you’ve given all of us
is hard to live just right.
Our efforts are iniquitous.
Our sinning is ubiquitous.
We’re fallen in your sight.

We’ve squandered and we’ve cheated you
but you will call us forth
to answer for these crimes – if few
or many, by just one we’re through.
One fault destroys our worth.

We cannot pay our good Lord back
before the end of things.
There is no wealth for what we lack;
we have no strength to mount attack
on what the future brings.

Just when we’ve sunk in deep despair,
Christ counters sin’s dark threat.
He calls us brother, friend, and heir
if we would live by faith with prayer
that He has paid our debt.


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Mark Ryman (mark@edoxy.com)