Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#186

186. My God, My Father, Blissful Name

1. My God, my Father, blissful name!
Oh, may I call you mine.
May I with sweet assurance claim
A portion so divine?
This only can my fears control,
And bid my sorrows fly.
What harm can ever reach my soul,
Beneath my Father’s eye?

2. Whate’er your providence denies,
I calmly would acquit,
For you are just, and good, and wise;
I to your will submit.
Whate’er your sacred will ordains,
Oh, give me strength to bear;
And let me know my Father reigns,
And trust his tender care.

3. If pain and sickness rend this frame,
And life almost depart,
Is not thy mercy still the same,
To cheer my drooping heart?
If cares and sorrows me surround,
Their pow'r why should I fear?
My inward peace they cannot wound,
If you, my God, are near.

4. Your sov'reign ways are all unknown
To my weak, erring sight;
Yet let my soul, adoring own
That all thy ways are right.
My God, my Father, be your name
My solace and my stay;
Oh, will you seal my humble claim,
And drive my fears away.

Text Information

• First Line: My God, my Father, blissful name!
• Title: My God, My Father, Blissful Name
• Author: Anne Steele (1760)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Romans 8:15
• Topic: Trinity Sunday
• Notes: Text by British poet Anne Steele, from Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, Vol. 1 (1760).

Tune Information

• Name: BLESSED ONE
• Composer: K. Jason French (2021)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
• Incipit: 35123 433
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: ©2021 Crossworks Music
• Notes: Tune BLESSED ONE by Baptist musician K. Jason French, arr. by Thomas Grassi, from Psalms of Grace (2022).