View the Present through the Promise
View the present through the promise, Christ will come again.
Trust despite the deepening darkness. Christ will come again.
Lift the world above its grieving through your watching and believing
in the hope past hope’s conceiving: Christ will come again.Probe the present with the promise, Christ will come again.
Let your daily actions witness. Christ will come again.
Let your loving and your giving and your justice and forgiving
be a sign to all the living: Christ will come again.Match the present to the promise, Christ will come again.
Make this hope your guiding premise, Christ will come again.
Pattern all your calculating and the world you are creating
to the Advent you are waiting: Christ will come again.– Thomas Troeger (c)1994 Oxford University Press
This hymn can be found in the hymnal, Sing! A New Creation (CRC Publications, 2001). Thanks to Ben Brody for passing this along.