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,
For to see beyond the horizons,
It’s God’s plan we cannot avoid.
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.
So, he opened his heart to the Word of the Lord,
And there his soul was bared.
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 what make or break,
But how we respond to the Lord our God,
This is what is at stake.
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?
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 the light
Or lie down in our valley of sin?
Do we lie down in our valley of sin
Lie down in our valley…
The valley of sin?
