TRUST - The Wall That Holds

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TRUST – The Wall That Holds by Bro H

[Verse 1] Before you speak a word of faith, before you bow your knee Know what the ancient language says — trust is not a feeling, it's a weight To lean — the full lean of a man against a wall he believes will hold To run for cover when the enemy is closing and the night is cold Not what the mouth claims but what the record has proven over time Trustworthiness demonstrated, not declared — that is the covenant sign The Lord is not merely the One you trust — He is the Trust, the only solid ground The wall that holds, the stronghold that you run to, the refuge that has never once come down [Verse 2] He gathered every rival claim and issued the challenge to the throne Produce your cause, show the former things, tell us what is yet unknown They stood in silence — every idol, every prophet, every power of men But I am God and there is none like Me, I declared the end before the beginning Before it springs I tell you of it, before the morning breaks the dawn Not one word that I have spoken has returned to Me and gone That is why trust in the Lord is not blind — the record is unbroken, the evidence is plain The counsel of Yahweh shall stand, and who shall turn it back again [Chorus] Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord Cursed be the man who leans upon the arm of flesh Egypt is a shadow, riches are a spider's web The wall that holds is Yahweh — trust in Him and not in man The counsel of Yahweh stands, it stands, it stands Declared from the beginning, brought to pass by His own hand Not one jot of what He spoke has ever failed The wall that holds is Yahweh — trust in Him and not in man [Verse 3] My feet were almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped I saw the wicked prosper and I thought the covenant had been stripped I cleansed my heart in vain, I said — I have been plagued every single day But the question cannot be answered from the outside, come what may Nevertheless — He held me by the right hand through the doubt Until I went into the sanctuary, and then I understood their end Their portion is this present age, their glory burns and goes out But afterward He will receive me — and that word afterward will not bend [Verse 4] Woe to them who go to Egypt, who lean on chariots and horse The shadow of Pharaoh cannot shelter you — the shadow is not the source What confidence is this wherein thou trustest, cried the voice from the wall Your ally is a broken reed, lean on it and it will pierce your hand as you fall But Hezekiah spread the letter out before the Lord in the court You are the God who made the heavens — these gods are wood and stone, they are not One hundred eighty-five thousand fell before a single sword was raised The wall that holds is not the wall of man — His answer left Sennacherib dazed [Verse 5] The temple, the temple, the temple — they chanted like a shield False prophets made the people trust a lie, and the lie could never hold the field He that trusteth in his riches falls — a spider's web is structure till the pressure lands And he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool — the proudest wall gives way beneath his hands But Jeremiah drew two pictures for the man who has to choose The heath in the desert, bare and parched, in a salt land with nothing left to lose The tree by the river, green in drought — the roots run deep where the water flows The difference is not circumstance — it is where the weight of a man's confidence goes [Verse 6] I have put my trust in the Lord my God — not to be wealthy, not to be free from pain Not to be raptured out before the fire, not to secure a comfortable reign That I may declare all Thy works — the witness is the fruit, the testimony is the road The tree is known by its root, the life is known by what it held when it was pressed and bowed The wicked have their portion now — their end is terror, sudden, and complete The faithful have the sanctuary's word — the present chapter is not the final beat So I will hold when the eye cannot see, I will run when the enemy is near For the wall that holds is Yahweh — and He has never failed the ones who gathered here [Outro] The counsel of Yahweh stands, it stands, it stands Declared from the beginning, brought to pass by His own hand Not one jot of what He spoke has ever failed The wall that holds is Yahweh — trust in Him and not in man Trust in Him and not in man The wall that holds is Yahweh But it is good for me to draw near to God I have put my trust in the Lord That I may declare all Thy works