What We Sang Today - Though Troubles Assail Us
Though troubles assail us and dangers affright, though friends should all fail us and foes all unite,
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, the promise assures us, “The Lord will provide.”
The birds, without garner or storehouse, are fed; from them let us learn to trust God for our bread.
His saints what is fitting shall ne’er be deined so long as ’tis written, “The Lord will provide.”
When Satan assails us to stop up our path, and courage all fails us, we triumph by faith.
He cannot take from us, though oft he has tried, this heart cheering promise, “The Lord will provide.”
No strength of our own and no goodness we claim; yet, since we have known of the Savior’s great name,
In this our strong tower for safety we hide: the Lord is our power, “The Lord will provide.”
Newton, a slave ship captain, is best known for his hymn “Amazing Grace”, but he wrote several other cherished hymns. I had never sung “Though Troubles Assail Us”, but instead know it better as “The Lord Will Provide” from Matthew Smith’s 2006 album All I Owe.
Did you sing an uplifting hymn today? Let me know in the comments. And visit Rebecca Writes to see what others sang today.
What They Sang Today - I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto me and rest; lay down, O weary one lay down, your head upon my breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was, so weary, worn and sad; I found in him my resting place, and he has made me glad.
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Behold I freely give the living water; thirsty one, stoop down and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus, and I drank from that life-giving stream; my thirst was quenched, my soul revived, and now I live in him.
I heard the voice of Jesus say, “I am this dark world’s light; look unto me, thy morn shall rise, and all thy day be bright.”
I looked to Jesus, and I found in him my star, my sun; and in that light of life I’ll walk ’til pilgrim days are done.
- Horatius Bonar; Music by Kevin Twit ©1998 Kevin Twit Music
I couldn’t attend church today, so I missed this beautiful hymn, one of my favorites. Indelible Grace included this hymn on their first album, sung by Sarah Catherine Brooks. (You can hear a clip of it on that page.) It’s amazing to me that a hymn written in 1846 can sound so refreshing and full of grace today. Kevin Twit and Indelible Grace have done a marvelous job of renewing interest in this and other glorious old hymns.
What did you sing today? Visit Rebecca Writes to see what others sang and include your link there.
What We Sang Today - Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above; praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it, mount of God’s unchanging love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer; hither by thy help I’m come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God: he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be; let that grace now, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander—Lord, I feel it—prone to leave the God I love: here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.
- Robert Robinson, 1758
Were you blessed and inspired by any of the hymns you sang today?