Sunday's Hymn

Here’s yet another of my favorite hymns.

Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him!*

Praise the Savior, ye who know Him!
Who can tell how much we owe Him?
Gladly let us render to Him
All we are and have.

Jesus is the Name that charms us,
He for conflict fits and arms us;
Nothing moves and nothing harms us
While we trust in Him.

Trust in Him, ye saints, forever,
He is faithful, changing never;
Neither force nor guile can sever
Those He loves from Him.

Keep us, Lord, O keep us cleaving
To Thyself, and still believing,
Till the hour of our receiving
Promised joys with Thee.

Then we shall be where we would be,
Then we shall be what we should be,
Things that are not now, nor could be,
Soon shall be our own.

—Thomas Kelly

I don’t have a YouTube video of this one, but I rather like this mp3 version. (The site that hosts this is KJVO, which, as you probably know, isn’t teaching that I endorse.)

*Note the brand new URL for TheCyberHymnal.

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 3, 2009 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Father, We Would Thank Thee at The Happy Wonderer
• Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness at Nova Scotia Scott
• To Praise our Shepherd’s Care at Conjubilant With Song
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: Keep Me Near the Cross
• Update: Come Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose at Hiraeth

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

My Desktop Photo 42

Photo by Andrew Stark
(click on photo for larger view)

What Today Is

Today is the 6th anniversary of the day my husband died at home surrounded by his family and a few friends. I always get a little contemplative (but not sad) around this time of year. I get sad at other times, but not on this day.

This day, six years ago, was, beneath everything, a joyful one. Things would have been different if he had died suddenly and unexpectedly, but we’d been preparing for this for 17 months. He was ready to see Jesus and we were prepared to let him go.