After a While

Verse 1

The world of forms and changes Is just now so confused That there is found some danger In everything you use, But this is consolation To every blood-washed child: The Lord will change our station After a while.

Chorus

After a while, after a while, The Lord will change our station After a while.

Verse 2

Old Satan tries to throw down Everything that’s good; He’d fix a way to confound The righteous if he could, But thanks to God almighty That he cannot beguile, And we will be done fighting After a while.

Verse 3

There are some men and women Who help the Devil on By constantly complaining Of everything that’s done. They want to be called Christians And all their badness hide; God will open the secret, After a while.

Verse 4

I know we have too many Who are living in the dark; They have but little, if any, Of Christian work at heart. But thousands, though ’tis stormy, Are marching undefiled, And God will head the army After a while.

Verse 5

There is a land of promise Where trials are unknown, Where Satan never cometh, For God is on the throne. And just a little longer, By faith and self-denial, We’ll join our friends up yonder After a while.