Great is Thy faithfulness

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"Great is Thy faithfulness," O God my Father,
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.
 
"Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"
  Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—
    "Great is Thy faithfulness," Lord, unto me!
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Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above,
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.
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Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
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八月 15 2011
Becky E

London, Essex, United Kingdom

Of a truth, there is a kind of anointing upon such old hymns which makes them feel new and fresh each time it is sang. For me, there is no shadow of turning with Thee!! I salute the generals who wrote and worked on this song, I love it....

八月 14 2011
Alero Omamuli

South Orange, New Jersey, United States

Who is like You, oh Lord?...How great Thou art!

八月 11 2011
Ike Ibekwe

Dublin, Ireland

Through this hymn HE reaches out to me in a way that brings tears of joy and that blessed assurance of His Sweet and Holy Presence. What is sweeter than honey? The Lord is. Blessed be Your NAME- Ancient of Days!

八月 5 2011
Keith Smith

My favorite part: all I have needed Thy HAND hath provided. God doesn't need two hands to get the job done, it says hand as in singular. I love that part, just speaks to His great power, and awesome love to mankind. I thank God for His great love, and I thank God for Jesus!! He has done great things for me. God bless!

八月 1 2011
Metuisela Lomalagi

Suva, Fiji

I am just reading The Bible in my quiet time with the Lord at 3 this morning and this wonderful hymn just springs into my mind. It is so powerful indeed. Praise The Lord !

七月 30 2011
Philip

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

This was my father's favorite hymn No. 66 in his book, fondly remembered, taken away from us 26 July 1992, still think of him when I hear it.

七月 27 2011
Kenneth Matthew Ehimhen

Jos, Plateau, Nigeria

The faithful of the Lord knows no bounds in our lives.

七月 26 2011
Billy Boram

Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea

It is such a wonderful hymn. When I listen to it, or even sing it in worship, brings God by His presence closer to me. My soul is revived, and my spirit is strengthened. Bless the Lord oh my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name.

七月 25 2011
Kelvin Khoo

Klang, Selangor, Malaysia

When I sing the lyrics I enter into His rest and experience a sense of new mercies every morning because He is faithful.

七月 21 2011
Jamie Smith

Union City, TN, United States

This song just speaks to me and moves me to tears. It just describes so well how God has taken care of me throughout my life and things have worked out for the best. It is a beautiful and most perfect song!

Although we are unfaithful, God is faithful. Lamentations 3:23b says, "Great is Your faithfulness." The chorus of a well-known hymn on God's faithfulness (Hymns, #19) says, "'Great is Thy faithfulness!' 'Great is Thy faithfulness!' / Morning by morning new mercies I see; / All I have needed Thy hand has provided—/ 'Great is Thy faithfulness,' Lord, unto me!" We may understand what the Bible says and what this hymn says about God's faithfulness either in a natural way or in a spiritual way. When you sing this hymn, how do you understand the word faithfulness? If you understand God's faithfulness in a natural way, you may think that He is faithful primarily in the matter of material provisions or physical blessings. When some say that God is faithful, they mean that He is faithful to take care of their material needs. However, in 1 Corinthians 1:9 Paul says, "God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." God is faithful in this matter, but He may not be faithful to provide you a large house or a well-paying job. I would not deny the fact that God is faithful in caring for our welfare. My point is that God's faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

Consider the sufferings of the apostle Paul. He was called, commissioned, burdened, and sent by God, but wherever he went he had troubles. For example, as soon as he began to preach Christ, he began to suffer persecution. He even had to escape from Damascus by being lowered down the wall in a basket. Does this mean that God was not faithful to Paul? No, it means that God's faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

When we believed in the Lord Jesus, we might have expected to have peace and blessing. But instead we might have had many troubles and might have lost our security, our health, or our possessions. When some Christians experience such things, they may question God's faithfulness and ask why He did not prevent hardships from happening to them.

We need to realize that in allowing us to have troubles, God is faithful in His purpose to turn us from idols and bring us back to Himself. Our peace, safety, health, and possessions may become idols to us, and God is faithful to take these things away so that we may drink of Him as the fountain of living waters. If our house or our possessions become idols to us, we drink of them and not of God. God's faithfulness is a matter of dealing with these idols and causing us to drink of Him.

God is faithful in leading us into His economy, and His economy is for us to drink Christ, to eat Christ, to enjoy Christ, to absorb Christ, and to assimilate Christ that God may have His increase with us to fulfill His economy. This is God's faithfulness.

Instead of drinking of God as the fountain of living waters, Israel drank of their idols. Therefore, God used the Babylonians to deal with these idols and also to destroy Jerusalem and even the temple, which had become an idol to them. We need to see that we are not better than Israel. Anything can become an idol to us. But God is faithful in fulfilling His economy. In His faithfulness He deals with our idols that we may drink of Him. We all need to drink of God as the fountain of living waters, receiving Christ into us and assimilating Him, so that He may increase for the fulfillment of God's economy to have His expression through His counterpart.

Whereas God is faithful, we are neither faithful nor chaste but go to many other husbands. After failing God, we may receive some mercy and grace and therefore repent and weep, saying, "How pitiful I am! For a long time I have not loved the Lord very much, and I have not attended the meetings." While we are repenting and weeping, God is rejoicing. However, if we repent and weep too much, even our repentance may become an idol. We may testify in a meeting, saying that we have thoroughly repented to God. But this may be a matter of self-boasting and be a self-made idol. Therefore, after repenting, we should begin to drink of the living waters, praising God, giving thanks to Him for everything, and enjoying Him. This is what God wants. God is not interested in anything other than our enjoyment of Christ.

Jeremiah's speaking in Lamentations 3:22-26 is another pattern of prophesying: "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord." Jeremiah told us that it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. This is not foretelling but blessing, well-speaking. He told us that the mercies, the compassions, of the Lord are new every morning. We need to learn to prophesy in this way. Jeremiah told the Lord, "Great is thy faithfulness." There is a well-known hymn based upon this verse (Hymns, #19). Jeremiah also said that the Lord was his portion. It is marvelous that there was a prophet in the Old Testament who knew that the Lord was his portion. When we tell others that the Lord is our portion, we are speaking the Lord to them.

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Worship of the Father
His Faithfulness
Thomas Obediah Chisholm (1866-1960)
William Marion Runyan (1870-1957)
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