Be Still My Soul
December 6.
This God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide even unto death.
PSALM 48, verse 14.
For the Lord shall be thy confidence.
PROVERBS 3, verse 26.
Be still, my soul! Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future, as He has the past:
Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake,
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
J. BORTHWJCK.
He has kept and folded us from ten thousand
ills when we did not know it: in the midst of
our security we should have perished every
hour, but that He sheltered us "from the terror
by night and from the arrow that flieth by day"
from the powers of evil that walk in darkness,
from snares of our own evil will. He has kept us
even against ourselves, and saved us even
from our own undoing. Let us read the traces
of His hand in all our ways, in all the events,
the chances, the changes of this troubled state.
It is He that folds and feeds us, that makes us
to go in and out,--to be faint, or to find pasture,
to lie down by the still waters, or to walk by
the way that is parched and desert.
H. E. MANNING.
We are never without help. We have no right to
say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do,
or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or
of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome.
ELIZABETH CHARLES.
This God is our God for ever and ever:
He will be our guide even unto death.
PSALM 48, verse 14.
For the Lord shall be thy confidence.
PROVERBS 3, verse 26.
Be still, my soul! Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future, as He has the past:
Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake,
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
J. BORTHWJCK.
He has kept and folded us from ten thousand
ills when we did not know it: in the midst of
our security we should have perished every
hour, but that He sheltered us "from the terror
by night and from the arrow that flieth by day"
from the powers of evil that walk in darkness,
from snares of our own evil will. He has kept us
even against ourselves, and saved us even
from our own undoing. Let us read the traces
of His hand in all our ways, in all the events,
the chances, the changes of this troubled state.
It is He that folds and feeds us, that makes us
to go in and out,--to be faint, or to find pasture,
to lie down by the still waters, or to walk by
the way that is parched and desert.
H. E. MANNING.
We are never without help. We have no right to
say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do,
or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or
of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome.
ELIZABETH CHARLES.
