Are You Building on the Rock?
Authors: Jessie Brown Pounds • Composers: J.H. Fillmore • Meter: 7.7.7.7. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png, png-shaped-note • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain • Years: 1908 • Bible References: Matthew 7:24-28
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1. Are you building on the Rock,
High above the sandy beach,
Where no sudden wave can shock,
Where no beating tide can reach?
Chorus:
Are you hearing and obeying?
Are you working, watching, praying?
Tell me, does your dwelling stand
On the rock, or on the sand?
2. Like the tides years come and go;
Tell me, are you very sure
That they will not overthrow
Much that seemed at first secure?
3. Lay with patience, faith and pray’r
Your foundations, deep and wide;
Build thereon with watchful care,
Far above the angry tide.
Shape Note Verse 2 begins:
“Years, like tides, will come and go;”