God is faithful in our living

God is faithful in our living;

Let us offer our thanksgiving.

No temptation will approach you

That there will not be a way through.

 

God is faithful in our living; 

Let us offer our thanksgiving.

Trials that come, no, these are not new;

Others knew them all before you.

 

God is faithful in our living; 

Let us offer our thanksgiving.

You can bear what tempting tries you;

'Tis God's gift, for sure and all true.

 

God is faithful in our living; 

Let us offer our thanksgiving.

Let the choice of what you will do

Be the work of God within you. 

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, March 2022; after 1 Corinthians 10:13 (Lent 3C).

MUSIC: Tune DEIRDRE, Irish melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906. 

 

 

Another "procrastihymn," written in the course of sermon prep. Though this verse tends to be regarded as the reassuring conclusion to Paul's argument in verses 1-12, somehow this text did not want a terribly upbeat or reassuring melody; it wanted a tune that conveyed melancholy or even regret that such reassurance was even necessary in the first place.