MY HOPE

My hope is based on nothing less,
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness,
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly trust in Jesus’ name.

When darkness seems to hide his face,
I rest on his unchanging grace,
In every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the vale.

His oath, his covenant, his blood,
support me in the whelming flood,
when all around my being give way,
he then is all my hope and sway.

When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found,
dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne.

Chorus:

On the Messiah the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking sand.

The hymn was written by Edward More