Monday Meditation: For Thy Mercy And Thy Grace

 

 

 

 "All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.  When You give it
to them, they gather up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things."
(Psalm 104:27-28)

 

 

Red Cardinal 
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For Thy mercy and Thy grace

Constant through another year,

Hear our song of thankfulness

Jesus, our Redeemer hear.

 

Lo! our sins on Thee we cast,

Thee, our perfect sacrifice;

And, forgetting all the past,

Press towards our glorious prize. 

 

Dark the future: let Thy light

Guide us, bright and morning Star:

Fierce our foes, and hard the fight;

Arm us, Savior, for the war. 

 

In our weakness and distress,

Rock of strength, be Thou our stay;

In the pathless wilderness

Be our true and living Way. 

 

Keep us faithful, keep us pure,

Keep us evermore Thine own;

Help, O help us to endure;

Fit us for the promised crown. 

 

So within Thy palace gate

We shall praise, on golden strings,

Thee the only potentate,

Lord of lords, and King of kings. 

 

"For Thy Mercy and Thy Grace"
(1841)
Henry Downton 
(1818-1885)
English clergyman and hymn writer