If God Himself Be for Me
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ”
“If God Himself Be for Me”
text by Paul Gerhardt
As a part of our Hymns for Hope: A Pandemic Playlist series, we’ve been gathering hymns of particular encouragement.
Cheryl Magness from The Federalist writes this about "If God Himself Be for Me”
draws on Romans 8:31-39, defiantly daring Satan to try, just try, to harm anyone who has been claimed by Christ: “If God Himself be for me, I may a host defy; For when I pray, before me My foes, confounded, fly. If Christ, the head and master, Befriend me from above, What foe or what disaster Can drive me from His love?”
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