A GERMAN TRUST SONG by Lampertus

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, Nos. 8 & 9.

A GERMAN TRUST SONG.

By Lampertus

Just as God leads me I would go; I would not ask to choose my way; Content with what he would bestow, Assured he will not let me stray, So as he leads, my path I make, And step by step I gladly take, A child in him confiding.

Just as God leads I am content; I rest me calmly in his hands; That which he has decreed and sent— That which his will for me commands, I would that he should all fulfill, That I should do his gracious will In living or in dying.

Just as God leads, I all resign; I trust me to my Father's will; When reason's rays deceptive shine, His counsel would I yet fulfill— That which his love ordained as right, Before he brought me to the light, My all to him resigning.

Just as God leads me, I abide In faith, in hope, in suffering true; His strength is ever by my side— Can aught my hold on him undo? I hold me firm in patience, knowing That God my life is still bestowing— The best in kindness sending.

Just as God leads me, I onward go, Oft amid thorns and briars seen; God does not yet his guidance show— But in the end it shall be seen How, by a loving Father's will, Faithful and true, he leads me still. —Lampertus, 1625.