Good afternoon y'all, it is time for the next installment of My Favourite Things: Monday. Except it is Tuesday today, as I'm a day late. Yesterday was the Labour Day holiday, and while a My Favourite Things: Monday blog post was on the To Do list, it didn't get done. However, I did want to put up a post on this week's theme, so here it is.
The theme for this week is favourite hymns, and more particularly favourite stanzas. I think for the hymns I've chosen favourite refrains might be more accurate. (I've already broken the Monday rule, so I may as well keep up with the liberties, eh?)
"Like a River Glorious" is one of my favourites. No matter the circumstances of life, there is peace, perfect peace in God, and we can trust Him for time and eternity.
Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious, in its bright increase;
Perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day,
Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.
Refrain:
Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest
Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.
Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,
Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;
Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.
Every joy or trial falleth from above,
Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love;
We may trust Him fully all for us to do;
They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.
"O, to See the Dawn (The Power of the Cross)" by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend, is a new favourite of mine. This song was added to the small supplementary hymnbook at church awhile ago, and I love it. The words are simple but so true and how the music fits with the lyrics is just beautiful. Oh, the power of the cross, and the marvelous love seen and given, the forgiveness found, in the cross of Christ!
O, to see the dawn of the darkest day;
Christ on the road to Calvary.
Tried by sinful men, torn and beaten,
Then nailed to a cross of wood.
This the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us.
Took the blame, bore the wrath;
We stand forgiven at the cross.
O, to see the pain written on Your face,
bearing the awesome weight of sin.
Ev'ry bitter thought, ev'ry evil deed
crowning Your blood-stained brow.
This the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us.
Took the blame, bore the wrath;
We stand forgiven at the cross.
Now the daylight flees; Now the ground beneath
quakes as its Maker bows His head.
Curtain towrn in two, dead are raised to life
"Finished!" the victory cry.
This the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us.
Took the blame, bore the wrath;
We stand forgiven at the cross.
O, to see my name written in the wounds,
for through Your suff'ring I am free.
Death is crushed to death, life is mine to live,
won through Your selfless love!
This the pow'r of the cross:
Son of God slain for us.
What a love, what a cost!
We stand forgiven at the cross.
What are some of your favourite hymns?
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