Entrust Your Days and Burdens
“Entrust Your Days and Burdens”
text by Paul Gerhardt
As a part of our Hymns for Hope: A Pandemic Playlist series, we’ve been gathering hymns of particular encouragement.
Cheryl Magness from The Federalist writes this about "Entrust Your Days and Burdens:”
based in part on Philippians 4 (“do not be anxious about anything”), [the hymn] calls on the faithful to let go of worry, knowing that God cares for all their needs: “Take heart, have hope, my spirit, And do not be dismayed; God helps in ev’ry trial And makes you unafraid. Await His time with patience Through darkest hours of night Until the sun you hoped for Delights your eager sight.”
From starke Kirchenlieder (where you can also see the lyrics):
In Lutheran Service Book, this hymn by Paul Gerhardt is #754. In LSB the text is set to a new tune by LCMS composer, Stephen R. Johnson, a tune called SUFFICIENTIA. In previous hymnals this text was set to a more somber tune.
TEXT
Entrust your days and burdens
To God's most loving hand;
He cares for you while ruling
The sky, the sea, the land.
For He who guides the tempests
Along their thund'rous ways
Will find for you a pathway
And guide you all your days.
Rely on God your Savior
And find your life secure.
Make His work your foundation
That your work may endure.
No anxious thought, no worry,
No self-tormenting care
Can win your Father's favor;
His heart is moved by prayer.
Take heart, have hope, my spirit,
And do not be dismayed;
God helps in ev'ry trial
And makes you unafraid.
Await His time with patience
Through darkest hours of night
Until the sun you hoped for
Delights your eager sight.
Leave all to His direction;
His wisdom rules for you
In ways to rouse your wonder
At all His love can do.
Soon He, His promise keeping,
With wonder-working pow'rs
Will banish from your spirit
What gave you troubled hours.
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