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A HYMN FOR TODAY – A Foretaste of Your Rest

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

A Foretaste of Your Rest

Gracious Father, Friend divine,
Consolation of the blessed,
You have touched this day of mine
With a foretaste of Your rest.
Though tomorrow care may come,
Trial arise and grief ensue,
Now I thank You for the time
I have spent in joy with You.

Should this hour of rest depart
And the joy it brings me cease,
I will bear it in my heart
As a promise of Your peace.
When I strain beneath new woe
Or contend with future sin,
From this moment I may know
You will bless my life again.

Father, though I cannot see
How my path will end below,
Still I know You wait for me
Where my heart has longed to go.
When my body cannot stand,
Take my spirit to Your breast;
With a father’s gentle hands,
Bear my soul to Sabbath rest.

7.7.7.7.D – M.W. Bassford, 2003

Tune: COPELAND – Matthew L. Harber, 2003

#374 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 2012

A FORETASTE OF YOUR REST thanks God for the times of peace that sometimes appear in our lives. Those moments promise both that God will also be with us in tumultuous times, and that He will give us final rest in Heaven. (Isaiah 26:3; Hebrews 4:7-10)

A HYMN FOR TODAY – Beneath the Cross of Jesus

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A HYMN FOR TODAY

Beneath the cross of Jesus
I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty rock
Within a weary land,
A home within the wilderness,
A rest upon the way,
From the burning of the noontide heat
And the burden of the day.

There lies beneath its shadow,
But on the farther side,
The darkness of an awful grave
That gapes both deep and wide,
And there between us stands the cross,
Two arms outstretched to save,
A watchman set to guard the way
From that eternal grave.

Upon that cross of Jesus
Mine eye at times can see
The very dying form of one
Who suffered there for me;
And from my smitten heart with tears
Two wonders I confess:
The wonders of redeeming love
And my unworthiness.

I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding place;
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshine of His face;
Content to let the world go by,
To know no gain or loss,
My sinful self my only shame,
My glory all the cross.

Irr. – Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1869

Tune: ST. CHRISTOPHER – Frederick C. Maker, 1881

#537 in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Song, 2012

Verse 2 is too often omitted from some hymnals