Our God, Our Help

A commonly sung and loved hymn in reformed circles is "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" by Isaac Watts. One of the great stanzas of that hymn reads:

Our God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years to come;
our shelter from the stormy blast,
and our eternal home.

Watts wrote this hymn, based upon Psalm 90, in response to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. That monarch's sympathy was with the Church of Rome, and she was in the process of passing laws in England that would have ended with great persecution of Protestants. She, however, died on the very day the laws were to be enacted. Believers in England understood this to be divine intervention in which God was protecting his people.