DO WE THANK GOD AND LIVE
Revised by John Capek, August 2021
Dauphin, MB, 1978-79
These words and tune came together, as most of my songs do, while contemplating how I had lost all things in this world. In our losses we bore as we forsook all to follow the Lord, we were discovering that “a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of that which he possesses.” We were also learning about the sovereignty of God, how He is over all and engineers all things according to His will.
Music & Lyrics by Victor N. Hafichuk
We weep at the loss of our holdings,
Our hopes and our savings destroyed,
But to bring us to greater horizons,
Has God these events employed.
CHORUS
Do we thank God and live or curse Him and die,
As Job’s wife cried out to him?
Do we climb up that mountain receiving the light
Or lie down in our valley of sin?
VERSE 2
Job lost all his possessions.
Even children and health were not spared.
But when lifted to loftier places,
He realized how poorly he’d fared.
CHORUS
Do we thank God and live or curse Him and die,
As Job’s wife cried out to him?
Do we climb up that mountain receiving the light
Or lie down in our valley of sin?
VERSE 3
The circumstances besetting us all
Are not the issue at stake,
But how we respond to the Lord our God,
This will make or break.
CHORUS
Do we thank God and live or curse Him and die
As Job’s wife cried out to him?
Do we climb up that mountain receiving more light
Or lie down in our valley of sin?
Bridge
Job was a good man and Job was a bad man
He did it all right and all wrong.
When he came to his end and started again,
He was a new man and doubly strong.
CHORUS
Do we thank God and live
Or curse Him and die
As Job’s wife cried out to him?
Do we climb up that mountain receiving more light
Or lie down in our valley of sin?
Do we lie down in our valley of sin
Do we climb up that mountain receiving more light
Lie down in our valley…
The valley of sin?
