God shall alone the refuge be,And comfort of my mind;Too wise to be mistaken, He,Too good to be unkind. In all his holy, sovereign will,He is, I daily find,Too wise to be mistaken, stillToo good to be unkind. When I the tempter’s rage endure,’Tis God supports my mind;Too wise to be mistaken, sure,Too good to…
You’ve probably read Proverbs, or at least heard your grandmother quote it, and felt the sting or the comfort of those short, sharp lines. “Wise words,” you think. But what do Proverbs actually do for you when life falls apart, when your anger flames up, when words wreck a marriage, or when shame keeps you…
Benjamin Beddome’s short hymn (four stanzas of plain, sturdy theology) is the kind of hymn a sober Christian keeps on the bedside table for hard nights. It names what we feel (darkness, mystery, the rod of God) and it points us where faith always points: to the throne above. Let’s walk stanza by stanza and…
Isaac Watts does what good hymnists do: he reads Scripture with a pastor’s eye, sings it with a poet’s heart, and hands both back to the congregation with a wink that says, “Now go and live this.” This little hymn is more than pretty verse; it’s a compact sermon on incarnation, law and gospel, atonement,…