A New Hymn for New Year Services
As ministers, pastors and worship leaders give thought and planning to their church services this coming Sunday, I offer a newly-written hymn suitable for congregational use on the first Sunday of a New Year, or on other dedication occasions:
I will trust in God who loves me
1. I will trust in God who loves me;
Doing good in Jesus’ name.
My delight is just to know him
And the One who took my blame.
He will grant my heart’s desire;
He will make his purpose known.
As I wait, his wisdom triumphs,
Shining like the coming dawn.
2. I will wait when faint or weary;
He has promised me new power.
Days will come when hope shall leave me,
God will lift me in that hour,
When we’ll rise on wings like eagles,
Run and never flag or tire,
Walk and not feel weak or weary,
Filled with grace and zeal and fire.
3. I will hope in God who helps me;
His unfailing love won’t end.
In his mercy he will save for
All sin breaks, his love can mend.
Great his faithfulness and mercy;
He renews them every day.
God is all I need and cherish
“He’s my hope,” my heart will say.
4. I will leave the past behind me;
Now I lay my old life down.
He it is who lives within me.
He is King, and his the crown.
In the Son of God I’m trusting;
He who breathed his final breath,
Crucified for all who love him,
Giving life through his own death.
(Words by Louis Kinsey © Jocky Music 2011).
The verses of this hymn are adapted from Ps 37.3-6, Isaiah 40.31, Lamentations 3.22-24 and Galatians 2.20.
A number of existing and well-known tunes are possible for this hymn. For instance, ‘Abbot’s Leigh’, ‘Austrian Hymn’ or ‘Hyfrydol’ will work. My own favourite is ‘Courage Brother’.
To sing the hymn to that last tune, you will have to repeat the first three syllables of the last line twice, so that last line of the first verse, for instance, would be ‘Shining like, shining like, shining like the coming dawn’, and so on at the end of each verse.
If you do use this hymn, I would be grateful if you included the copyright information which is found at the foot of the lyrics.
A peaceful and blessed New Year to all visitors to this blog.
Soli Deo Gloria
