532- Day By Day
Christian Life: Faith and Trust
1
- Day by day and with each passing moment,
- Strength I find to meet my trials here;
- Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment,
- I've no cause for worry or for fear,
- He whose heart is kind beyond all measure
- Gives unto each day what He deems best
- Lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure,
- Mingling toil with peace and rest.
2
- Every day the Lord Himself is near me
- With a special mercy for each hour;
- All my cares he fain would bear, and cheer me,
- He whose name is Counselor and power.
- The protection of His child and treasure
- Is a charge that on Himself He laid:
- As your days, your strength shall be in measure,
- This the pledge to me He made.
3
- Help me then in every tribulation
- So to trust Thy promises, O Lord,
- That I lose not faith's sweet consolation
- Offered me within Thy holy Word.
- Help me Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,
- E'er to take, as from a Father's hand,
- One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,
- Till I reach the promised land.