Your Ways Are Higher
 
1. Oh God, Your ways are higher far 
Than all the faulty ways of man;
Creator of sun, moon, and star,
And Author of salvation's plan. 
 
2. We thought You were like heathen gods,
Or like a childish potentate;
Who struck in anger or destroyed 
At will, the beings You create. 
 
3. But you have taught us, now we know 
A God of love who changes not;
The laws You gave to men below 
Are all expressions of Your thought. 
 
4. We shall not kill, because you don't;
We serve not a destroying god;
Your law is in our hearts, we won't 
Destroy in word, or act, or thought. 
 
5. It's sin, and only sin, that kills;
The wages that it pays are death;
But in Your Son, eternal life,
For all His ways are righteousness.