# Lord’s Day Hymn – A prayer for Hudson Parker

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- Published: 2007-11-04T11:03:46-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“If You will Only Let God Guide You”
 By Georg Neumark, 1641 Translated by Catherine
Winkworth, 1863

_A prayer for my son, Hudson Parker, born November 3, 2007_

If thou but suffer God to guide thee
 And hope in Him through all thy ways, He’ll
give thee strength, whate’er betide thee, And bear thee through the evil days. Who
trust in God’s unchanging love Builds on the rock that naught can move.

What can these anxious cares avail thee
 These never ceasing moans and sighs? What
can it help if thou bewail thee O’er each dark moment as it flies? Our cross and
trials do but press The heavier for our bitterness.

Be patient and await His leisure
 In cheerful hope, with heart content To take whatever
thy Father’s pleasure And His discerning love hath sent, Nor doubt our inmost want
are known To Him who chose us for His own.

God knows full well when time of gladness
 Shall be the needful thing for thee. 
When He has tried thy soul with sadness And from all guile has found thee free, 
He comes to thee all unaware And makes thee own His loving care.

Nor think amid the fiery trial
 That God hath cast thee off unheard, That he whose
hopes meet no denial Must surely be of God preferred. Time passes and much change
doth bring And set a bound to everything.

All are alike before the Highest:
 ’Tis easy for our God, We know, To raise thee
up, though low thou liest, To make the rich man poor and low. True wonders still
by Him are wrought Who setteth up and brings to naught.

Sing, pray, and keep His ways unswerving,
 Perform thy duties faithfully, And trust
His Word: though undeserving, Thou yet shalt find it true for thee. God never yet
forsook in need The soul that trusted Him indeed.

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