My House Will Stand

Are you build­ing your house

On the rock or the sand

Are you liv­ing for time

Or the ages to be?

Do you know that your struct­ure

Though shak­en

will stand

Unharmed by the tem­pests

Which sweep o’er the sea?

Let rains des­cend and tem­pests sweep;

Let floods arise and bil­lows leap;

My house will stand ’neath ev­ery shock

For I have built up­on the Rock.

O the Lord is the Rock;

Our foun­da­tion is tried

And is change­less to­day

As in cen­tu­ries flown

Though by men once re­ject­ed

He still doth ab­ide

He’s the blest Rock of Ag­es

The great Liv­ing Stone.

Though the bil­lows may beat

And the hur­ri­cane blow

I am fear­less and calm

In the face of the gale;

For the Word of Je­ho­vah

Is sure

and I know

Having built on my Sav­ior

They can­not pre­vail.