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The Will of God Is Always Best
Author: Albert, Duke of Prussia Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: The will of God is always best And shall be done forever Text Sources: Tr. composite
The Will of God Is Always Best
WAS MEIN GOTT WILL (Isorhythmic)
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 31 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Claudin de Sermisy, c. 1490-1562 Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 57173 32332 1421 Used With Text: The Will of God Is Always Best
WAS MEIN GOTT WILL (Isorhythmic)
The Will of God Is Always Best
Author: Albrecht von Brandenburg, 1522-57 Hymnal: Lutheran Worship #425 (1982) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 The will of God is always best
And shall be done forever;
And they who trust in him are blest,
He will forsake them never.
He helps indeed
In time of need,
He chastens with forbearing;
They who depend
On God, their friend,
Shall not be left despairing.
2 God is my comfort and my trust,
My hope and life abiding;
And to his counsel, wise and just,
I yield, in him confiding.
The very hairs,
His Word declares,
Upon my head he numbers.
By night and day
God is my stay,
He never sleeps nor slumbers.
3 Lord, this I ask, oh, hear my plea,
Deny me not this favor:
When Satan sorely troubles me,
Then do not let me waver.
Oh, guard me well,
My fear dispel,
Fulfill your faithful saying:
He who believes
Indeed receives
An answer to his praying.
4 When life's brief course on earth is run
And I this world am leaving,
Grant me to say, "Your will be done,"
Your faithful Word believing.
My dearest friend, I now commend
My soul into your keeping,
From sin and hell,
And death as well,
By you the vict'ry reaping. Topics: Cross and Comfort Languages: English Tune Title: WAS MEIN GOTT WILL
The Will of God Is Always Best
The Will of God Is Always Best
Author: Albrecht von Preussen, 1490-1568 Hymnal: Christian Worship (1993) #435 (1993) Lyrics: 1 The will of God is always best
And shall be done forever.
And they who trust in him are blest;
He will forsake them never.
He helps indeed
In time of need;
He chastens with forebearing.
They who depend
On God, their friend,
Shall not be left despairing.
2 God is my comfort and my trust,
My hope and life abiding,
And to his counsel, wise and just,
I yield, in him confiding.
The very hairs,
His Word declares,
Upon my head he numbers.
By night and day
God is my stay;
He never sleeps nor slumbers.
3 Lord, this I ask; oh, hear my plea --
Deny me not this favor:
When Satan sorely troubles me,
Then do not let me waver.
Keep watch and ward,
O gracious Lord;
Fulfill your faithful saying:
All who believe
By grace receive
An answer to their praying.
4 When life's brief course on earth is run
And I this world am leaving,
Grant me to say, "Your will be done,"
Your faithful Word believing.
My heav'nly Friend,
I now commend
My soul into your keeping,
O'er sin and hell
And death as well
Through you the vict'ry reaping. Topics: Trust; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: WAS MEIN GOTT WILL
The Will of God Is Always Best
The Will of God is always Best
Author: A. von Brandenburg, 1522-57 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #477 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 The will of God is always best
And shall be done forever;
And they who trust in Him are blest,
He will forsake them never.
He helps indeed
In time of need,
He chastens with forbearing;
They who depend
On God, their Friend,
Shall not be left despairing.
2 God is my Comfort and my Trust,
My Hope and life abiding;
And to His counsel wise and just,
I yield, in Him confiding.
The very hairs,
His Word declares,
Upon my head He numbers.
By night and day
God is my Stay,
He never sleeps nor slumbers.
3 Lord Jesus, this I ask of Thee,
Deny me not this favor:
When Satan sorely troubles me,
Then do not let me waver.
Keep watch and ward,
O gracious Lord,
Fulfil Thy faithful saying:
Who doth believe
He shall receive
An answer to His praying.
4 When life's brief course on earth is run
And I this world am leaving,
Grant me to say: "Thy will be done,"
By faith to Thee still cleaving.
My heav'nly Friend, I now commend
My soul into Thy keeping,
O'er sin and hell,
And death as well,
Through Thee the vict'ry reaping.
Topics: Death and Burial; Trinity 16 Languages: English Tune Title: WAS MEIN GOTT WILL
The Will of God is always Best
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Arranger of "WAS MEIN GOTT WILL" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary 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
Albert, Duke of Prussia
1490 - 1568 Person Name: Albrecht von Preussen, 1490-1568 Author of "The Will of God Is Always Best" in Lutheran Service Book
Albert, Duke of Prussia
Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades
1522 - 1557 Person Name: A. von Brandenburg, 1522-57 Author of "The Will of God is always Best" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades
