"All the Way My Saviour Leads Me"

All the Way My Saviour Leads Me

This is the first hymn in a devotional book that I rediscovered thus week. It was just what I needed. All the Way My Saviour Leads Me

What have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy Who through life has been my Guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, There by faith in Him to dwell! For I know whate’er befalls me, Jesus doeth all things well. . All the Way My Saviour Leads Me

Cheers each winding path I tread. Gives me grace for every trial, feeds me with the living bread. Though my weary steps may falter, and my soul athirst may be, Gushing from the Rock before me, Lo! A spring of joy I see. All the Way My Saviour Leads Me

Oh, the fullness of His love! Perfect rest to me is promised in my Fathers house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal, wings its flight to realms of day, This my song through endless ages: Jesus led me all the way. Then I read Psalm 31:1-3: 1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

The devotional comment reads: “Those of us who know Jesus Christ as Saviour should never allow fear to have any part in our lives. God, the Creator, has taken on the responsibility of guiding us in every step that we take. And more than that, the One who said that He would always lead us has also promised to cheer us when we are sad, give us grace for every trial that we face, feed us spiritually through His living bread, supply water from His own everlasting fountain. What else can we need? We must remember, however, that whether the steps seem good or bad to us – He is leading. He leads when there is an increase in pay or when there is no job at all. He is there when a tiny new member arrives in the family or when death takes a dear one. He is there to lead when a wayward child breaks the heart or when we feel desperately alone and forgotten. Our Saviour has promised to lead when we go to the uttermost parts of the world, when we work in that small, struggling church, when business fails, when there is accident or sickness. Yes, all the way our Saviour leads. Devotional Thoughts with the hymnbook No. 2 by Ruth I. Johnson c. 1971 Back to the Bible Broadcast

He leads and is with us ALL the way - even when we are being investigated by the Brazilian government regarding our 2003 declaration, when Robert is sick with an uncomfortable infection, and when we do not clearly understand our way! On Sunday Ingrid read Isa. 40: 25 - 31, and that was a special blessing to me. Then she chose a hymn that I taught to the congregation some years ago - always a good reminder, too - "O segredo do viver, o segredo do vencer, eh em Cristo confiar, nunca, nunca duvidar." (The secret of living and of being vistorious is to trust in Christ and never, never doubt.)