1 What our Father does is well: Blessed truth His children tell! Though He send for plenty want, Though the harvest-store be scant, Yet we rest upon His love, Seeking better things above.
2 What our Father does is well: Shall the willful heart rebel If a blessing He withhold In the field or in the fold? Is He not Himself to be All our store eternally?
3 What our Father does is well: Though He sadden hill and dell, Upward yet our praises rise For the strength His Word supplies. He has called us sons of God:-- Can we murmur at His rod?
4 What our Father does is well: May the thought within us dwell; Though nor milk nor honey flow In this barren land below, God will save us in our need, God will bless us, God will feed.
5 Therefore unto Him we raise Hymns of glory, songs of praise; To the Father and the Son And the Spirit, Three in One, Honor, might and glory be, Now and through eternity.
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