Sunday's Hymn
Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 9:32PM Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
Thy Word commands our flesh to dust,
“Return, ye sons of men:”
All nations rose from earth at first,
And turn to earth again.
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downwards by the flood,
And lost in following years.
Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
Like flowery fields the nations stand
Pleased with the morning light;
The flowers beneath the mower’s hand
Lie withering ere ‘tis night.
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home.
—Isaac Watts
My favorite YouTube video of this hymn has embedding disabled, but I like this, too:
Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:
- How Watchful Is the Loving Lord at Tried With Fire
- All the Way My Savior Leads Me at Rosemary at Home
- Stand Up for Jesus at Wordwise Hymns
- As with Gladness Men of Old at Field Stone Cottage
- Forever Settled in the Heavens at Hiraeth
- Come and Rejoice with Me at Conjubilant With Song
- Lord’s Day 1, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
- Psalm 62 at Daily On My Way to Heaven
- Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon at Pyromaniacs: A Rebuke to Our Cold-Hearted Calvinsim
- Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Grove Farm
- Voices of the Past - January 2, 2011 at The Upward Call
Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.
Reader Comments (6)
I watched the youtube. I kept thinking how pleased God must be to hear her sing those words, from her heart.
That's exactly why I like it so much. She knows what the words mean and she sings them from the heart.
I have been thinking of you in your long, dark days in the Yukon. Today as the sun began to set at 4pm I thought, "aren't the days supposed to be getting longer?" Then I thought of you. So this hymn's lyrics of "stormy blasts" and "Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun" and "morning light" moved me to pray for you and praise our God that we do not really live in darkness. He truly is our help. I am thankful for you that the days are actually getting longer even if it does not seem so yet.
We gain only a couple of minutes a day at this point. I've looked. :)
14 minutes since Dec. 21.
The greatest New Year's hymn ever!
What a precious video that was! This is one of my all time favorite hymns. Thank you for posting it.
(I posted some sermon notes yesterday @ www.theologyforgirls.blogspot.com)
Blessings to you today Rebecca.