137 All God’s Work Is Most Practical
Chorus
In God’s work, He expresses what He is;
He does not rack His brains to formulate it.
The work He does is the most actual work.
It’s based on how things change, how each era develops.
Verse 1
For God doing work is akin
to treating an illness with medicine.
He observes and continues His work
according to the results He’s seen.
In every stage of His work,
God can express wisdom, ability
according to the work of each stage.
He shows ample wisdom, authority.
He lets all from that age brought back by Him
see His entire disposition.
Verse 2
God provides for people’s needs according
to the work He needs to do in each age,
meets humankind’s needs based on the degree
to which they’ve been corrupted by Satan.
He has been engaged in new work
ever since the world was created,
and not one of the steps of this work
has ever once been repeated.
Satan constantly plots, corrupting men;
God performs His wise work again and again.
Pre-chorus 1
He has never stopped working or failed
ever since the world was created.
After Satan corrupted humans,
He worked on to defeat it amongst them,
to beat the source of their corruption.
This battle has raged since the world commenced,
and it will rage on until the world ends.
Chorus
In God’s work, He expresses what He is;
He does not rack His brains to formulate it.
The work He does is the most actual work.
It’s based on how things change, how each era develops.
Verse 3
In doing His work Jehovah God
brings great salvation to humans;
He also lets them see His wisdom,
authority and omnipotence.
In the end He will let them see
He has a righteous disposition,
rewarding all those who are good,
punishing those who are wicked.
Based on Satan’s plots He uses His wisdom.
He’s never failed in His war with Satan.
Pre-chorus 2
So God not only makes everything
in heav’n bow to His authority;
He has all things upon earth rest
below His footstool and, not least,
He makes those fall within His chastisement
who wickedly invade, harass humans.
Fruits from all this work are due to His wisdom.
Chorus
In God’s work, He expresses what He is;
He does not rack His brains to formulate it.
The work He does is the most actual work.
It’s based on how things change, how each era develops.
Adapted from “You Should Know How the Whole of Humanity Has Developed to the Present Day” in The Word Appears in the Flesh