Text: | The Will of God Is Always Best |
Author: | Albrecht von Preussen, 1490-1568 |
Tune: | WAS MEIN GOTT WILL |
Compoaser: | Claude de Sermisy, c. 1490-1562 |
1 The will of God is always best
And shall be done forever.
And they who trust in him are blest;
He will forsake them never.
He helps indeed
In time of need;
He chastens with forebearing.
They who depend
On God, their friend,
Shall not be left despairing.
2 God is my comfort and my trust,
My hope and life abiding,
And to his counsel, wise and just,
I yield, in him confiding.
The very hairs,
His Word declares,
Upon my head he numbers.
By night and day
God is my stay;
He never sleeps nor slumbers.
3 Lord, this I ask; oh, hear my plea --
Deny me not this favor:
When Satan sorely troubles me,
Then do not let me waver.
Keep watch and ward,
O gracious Lord;
Fulfill your faithful saying:
All who believe
By grace receive
An answer to their praying.
4 When life's brief course on earth is run
And I this world am leaving,
Grant me to say, "Your will be done,"
Your faithful Word believing.
My heav'nly Friend,
I now commend
My soul into your keeping,
O'er sin and hell
And death as well
Through you the vict'ry reaping.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The will of God is always best |
Title: | The Will of God Is Always Best |
Author: | Albrecht von Preussen, 1490-1568 |
Meter: | 87 87 447 447 Iambic |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Trust |
Source: | Translation composite |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WAS MEIN GOTT WILL |
Compoaser: | Claude de Sermisy, c. 1490-1562 (alt.) |
Meter: | 87 87 447 447 Iambic |
Key: | g minor |
Copyright: | Setting: © 1982 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission of CPH. |
Notes: | Alternate setting: 447 |