Every month at our Deacons' Meeting we finish by singing this two verse hymn.
1 How good is the God we adore,
Our faithful unchangeable Friend:
His love is as great as His power,
And knows neither measure nor end!
2 'Tis Jesus, the First and the Last,
Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home;
We'll praise Him for all that is past,
And trust Him for all that's to come.
No it's not the greatest poetry, and its sunny piety might occasionally jar with the realities of life's steep braes and sharp turnings. But it expresses the rich variations of faith and devotion of our folk, happily using superlatives that cannot be exaggerations when predicated of God.
It is also Trinitarian, the faithful God who is Father of every family named on earth, Jesus who is the beginning and end of all that matters most in life, and the Spirit, "who guides us safe home."
These past few months, I've missed singing that. And when by God's mercy we are through all this, I'll look forward to singing it, and those last two lines:
We'll praise Him for all that is past,
And trust Him for all that's to come.
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