Evangelical Lutheran hymnal ‎#326

326. All things hang on our possessing

1 All depends on our possessing
God's free love and grace and blessing,
Though all earthly wealth depart;
He who God for His hath taken,
'Mid the changing world unshaken,
Keeps a free, heroic heart.

2 He who hitherto hath fed me
And to many a joy hath led me,
Is and ever shall be mine;
He who did so gently school me,
He who still doth guide and rule me,
Will not leave me now to pine.

3 Shall I weary me with fretting
O'er vain trifles and regretting
Things that never can remain?
I will strive but that to to win me
Which can shed true rest within me,
Rest the world must seek in vain.

4 When my heart with longing sickens,
Hope again my courage quickens;
For my wish shall be fulfilled,
If is please His most will most tender:
Life and soul I will surrender
Unto Him on whom I build.

5 Well He knows how best to grant me
All the longing hopes that haunt me;
All things have their proper day.
I to Him would dictate never,
As God will, so be it ever,
When He wills I will obey.

6 If on earth He bids me linger,
He will guide me with His finger
Through the years that now look dim;
All that earth has fleets and changes,
As a river onward ranges,
But I rest in peace on Him.

Text Information

• First Line: All things hang on our possessing
• Translator: Catherine Winkworth (1858)
• Meter: No. 70
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1908
• Topic: The Catechism: Daily Duty; Third Sunday after Trinity; Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
• Source: Anon. Nürnberg G. B., 1676
• Notes: Now Public Domain. From the German text: Alles ist an Gottes Segen

Tune Information

• Name: HILDESHEIM (Alles ist an Gottes Segen)
• Composer: Johann Balthazar König (1738)
• Adapter: Johann Adam Hiller (1793)
• Meter: No. 70
• Key: G Major
• Notes: Public Domain.