The God I Know Lyrics

Every good thing given and every perfect gift

Is from above, coming down from the Father of lights

With whom there is no variation or shifting shadow

Let no one say when he is tempted

I am being tempted by God

For God cannot be tempted with evil

And He Himself tempts no one

Who authored your decree

When you ordained all evil from eternity

Who decided my every sin

When you decreed my nature and temptation

Who ensured Adam's fall

Giving him the shove to damn us all

This is not the God I know

Not the Savior who died for all

Who knows no evil, who tempts no soul

Who took our flesh to make us whole

Not the voice that ordains our sin

But the one who calls us back to Him

Who elects infants for the pyre

To suffer wrath and endless fire

What god delights in innocent cries

As helpless souls are doomed to die

What kind of god demands the pain

Of children to quench his rage

This is not the God I know

Not the Savior who died for all

Who knows no evil, who tempts no soul

Who took our flesh to make us whole

Not the voice that ordains our sin

But the one who calls us back to Him

God is good, not like they say

Decreeing murder, theft, adultery

The Calvinists have lost their way

Calling blasphemy worthy praise

But sovereignty won't shift the blame

For those who profane His holy name

This is not the God I know

Not the Savior who died for all

Who knows no evil, who tempts no soul

Who took our flesh to make us whole

Not the voice that ordains our sin

But the one who calls us back to Him