"Where Saints Have Landed"
TEXT: Mark Ryman (©2004) based on Luke 16:19-31. More hymns at edoxy.com.
TUNE: "Hamburg" by Lowell Mason (1824).

There was a gulf fixed between you and me
and I could not see to that distant shore.
It was as wide as the Aegean Sea—
troubled by waves and horror of Thor.

I was engulfed by the swell of my soul
and could not find my way through the abyss.
The surf was high from the view of that shoal;
I wondered much if a god exists.

So God sent down lightning to show the way
back to the coast from which I was stranded.
This Light of Life turned my dark into day,
revealing where saints have landed.

If you would find your way back to God’s shores,
do not wait long like the rich man in Luke.
Lazarus is no more covered with sores.
but that rich man suffers God’s rebuke.


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