God Moves in a Mysterious Way...

When I sang this hymn today in church, the second verse really struck me, as if I had never sung those words before.  Such a beautiful gospel theme.  Then I looked back to the first verse and read the second part of it and when it says "plants his footsteps in the sea" it made me think of Jesus walking on the water and His great power.  I just have not internalized the lyrics of this hymn before and it is beautiful.  I love hymns so much for the spirit they bring and the gospel messages they teach.

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.

Ye fearful Saints, fresh courage take; 
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste
But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan his works in vain;
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.

Paul's Pearls of Wisdom

Acts 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth;


Romans 8:6

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Romans 8: 16-17

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;...


Romans 8: 35, 38-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Romans 12: 1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.



Romans 12: 21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.


Romans 13: 12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand:  let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.


1 Corinthians 2: 9
...Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.