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I am not skilled to understand
Author: Dora Greenwell (1821-1882) Meter: 8.8.8.7 Appears in 85 hymnals Lyrics: 1 I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know that at His right hand
Stands One who is my Saviour!
2 I take God at His word and deed:
“Christ died to save me”— this I read;
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Saviour!
3 And was there then no other way
For God to take?— I cannot say;
I only bless Him, day by day,
Who saved me through my Saviour.
4 That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange?— so do not I,
Since I have known my Saviour!
4 And O that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Saviour!
5 Yea, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring,
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Saviour.
Amen. Topics: The Life In Christ The Inner Life; Christ Call, Answering Christ's; Christ Passion, His; Inner Life, The Used With Tune: ACH GOTT UND HERR
I am not skilled to understand
[I am not skilled to understand]
Appears in 51 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Kirkpatrick Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13335 54432 22665 Used With Text: I Am Not Skilled to Understand
[I am not skilled to understand]
[I am not skilled to understand]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Aaron Shust; Nicola Morrison, b. 1978 Tune Key: C Major Used With Text: My Saviour loves, my Saviour lives
[I am not skilled to understand]
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
Author: Dora Greenwell, 1821-1882 Hymnal: Worship and Service Hymnal #68 (1957) Lyrics: 1 I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know at His right hand
Is One who is my Saviour!
2 I take Him at His word indeed:
“Christ died for sinners,” this I read;
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Saviour!
3 That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I,
Before I knew my Saviour!
4 And oh, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Saviour!
5 Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this Spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Saviour!
Amen. Topics: Christ Passion; Christ Sacrifice; New Birth; Passion; Sacrifice Languages: English Tune Title: [I am not skilled to understand]
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
Author: Dora Greenwell Hymnal: Sing Joyfully #287 (1989) Lyrics: 1 I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned;
I only know at His right hand
Is One who is my Savior!
2 I take Him at His word indeed;
“Christ died for sinners,” this I read;
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Savior!
3 That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I,
Before I knew my Savior!
4 And O, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Savior!
5 Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior!
Topics: Jesus Christ Savior; Testimony; Witness Songs Languages: English Tune Title: [I am not skilled to understand]
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
Author: Dora Greenwell Hymnal: Hymns of Faith #333 (1980) Lyrics: 1 I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned;
I only know that at His right hand
Is One Who is my Savior!
2 I take Him at His word indeed;
“Christ died for sinners,” this I read;
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Savior!
3 That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I,
Before I knew my Savior!
4 And O, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Savior!
5 Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior!
Topics: Christ Savior; Christ Savior Scripture: Isaiah 53:11 Languages: English Tune Title: [I am not skilled to understand]
I Am Not Skilled to Understand
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Arranger of "ACH GOTT UND HERR" in The Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dora Greenwell
1821 - 1882 Person Name: Dora Greenwell (1821-1882) Author of "I am not skilled to understand" in The Hymnal Greenwell, Dorothy, commonly known as "Dora Greenwell," was born at Greenwell Ford, Durham, in 1821; resided at Ovingham Rectory, Northumberland (1848); Golborne Rectory, Lancashire; Durham (1854), and Clifton, near Bristol, where she died in 1882. Her works include Poems, 1848; The Patience of Hope, 1861; The Life of Lacordaire; A Present Heaven; Two Friends; Songs of Salvation, 1874, &c. Her Life, by W. Dorling, was published in 1885.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Dora Greenwell
William J. Kirkpatrick
1838 - 1921 Person Name: William James Kirkpatrick Composer of "GREENWELL" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia.
Bert Polman
William J. Kirkpatrick
