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Let All Things Now Living
Hymn Information
- First Line
- Let all things now living
- Author
- Katherine K. Davis (1939)
- Tune Name
- ASH GROVE
- Composer (descant)
- Katherine K. Davis
- Topic
- Biblical Names and Places: Pillar of Cloud/Pillar of Fire · Creation · Darkness · God as: Creator · God as: Guide · God's: Protection · God's: Providence · Music and Singing · Occasional Services: Thanksgiving/Harvest · Praise of God · Testimony/Witness · Thankfulness
Copyright Information
- Text Copyright
- Public Domain
- Tune Copyright
- Desc. © 1939, 1966 E. C. Schirmer Music Co.
- Reprint/Projection Information
- Words and Music: The Words and Music are in the Public Domain; you do not need permission to project or reprint the Words and Music.
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Scripture References
Further Reflections on Scripture References
Employing Old Testament images, the text calls forth praise from all creatures and directs that praise to God the Creator. We praise God because he made us and provides for us (st. 1); we join our praise to that of the entire universe in a song of “hosanna and praise” (st. 2).
Confessions and Statements of Faith References
Further Reflections on Confessions and Statements of Faith References
This song beautifully merges God’s creative work, his providential guidance of all, and our response of trust and thanksgiving. Each of these themes is amplified clearly in the confessions. Singing can be meaningfully coupled with a reading of Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 10, Questions and Answers 27-28: “The almighty and ever present power of God…upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty—all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but by his fatherly hand…nothing can separate us from his (God’s) love.”
Our World Belongs to God, paragraph 9 claims that God made this “a world of color, beauty and variety...,” a theme which is picked up throughout this song. The universe is a beautiful book to make us ponder the “invisible things of God” (Belgic Confession, Article 2).
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