Tune: Kingsfold
(\'I heard the voice of Jesus say\')
Romans 8 v.18-23
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We can reckon the sufferings
And troubles this life brings
As not worthy to be compared
With glory to be shared
In believers, who in Christ are
Glory greater by far
Shall be reveled, it not concealed
When creation be healed
For creatures they do sure earnest
Wait, expect to be blest
When sons of God are manifest
And time of promised rest
Shall come in God\'s plans, purposes
We do this true confess
Though subject now to vanity
Creation now it be
Though God He has subjected such
Is in His great hope much
It frustrated and decaying
But God shall sure it bring
From its bondage into freedom
When comes full His kingdom
Of a new heaven and new earth
With sons of God\'s true worth
But creation, from death and pain
Shall be freed, ne\'er again
Shall them know, but God it shall bring
Deliverance, each thing
Into the glorious liberty
Of children of God, see
And we as His sons adopted
Know Him our living head
We one day shall be full redeemed
Whate\'er sufferings may seemed
To have hindered or to opposed
Not all as is supposed
For we here long to be set free
God works redemptively
Through sufferings too, the image sure
Of Christ forms in us more