Solid Hope

I love the song "The Solid Rock".
It's a stand-by in most churches and in the new contempory churches, it's not even sung. But it is still one of my favorites. I think it is because during the times when life feels uncertain and shaky I can always stand firm when I cling to Jesus, my Rock. This song reminds me of that.
The first words of the song are probably my favorite and I don't know how many times I have heard them repeated in my head. "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness" He alone is our hope.
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My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

-Edward Mote 1836