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Saturday, January 24, 2009
"Like a River Glorious"
Frances Havergal has to be one of my favorite Hymnist. She understood what it meant to give up all and follow Christ. She understood the true meaning of putting Christ above all... all family, all friends, and all her plans. And she understood where she could find true peace of mind and soul. She did not blame God for her sickly circumstance or her singleness. Instead she gave her life to Christ.
In full and glad surrender
I give myself to Thee,
Thine utterly and only
And evermore to be.
24 December 1873
The article below is taken from http://www.continuingcofe.org/havergal.htm:
It is hard to put into words the motions of the soul, and Frances was experienced with the pen. Let us be satisfied to know that she was brought into a deeper relationship with Jesus, to a fuller knowledge of His grace, and a more perfect trust in the grace of God.
For her the time from the end of 1873 to her death was the most peaceful part of her life, and when she lay dying she rested in the finished work of her Saviour Jesus, Whose blood alone could make her acceptable to God.
Her love for the Saviour shone through from the moment of her conversion to the moment she died. Her life of obedience is before us as an example of complete consecration to God. These are the things she sought to declare in words and song, as she who was ‘Kept for the Master’s Use’ gave herself in full and glad surrender to the One who had bled and died for her.
Like a river glorious
Is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious
In its bright increase;
Perfect, yet it floweth
Fuller every day;
Perfect, yet it groweth
Deeper all the way.
Stayed upon Jehovah
Hearts are fully blest,
Finding, as He promised,
Perfect peace and rest.
Hidden in the hollow
Of His blessèd hand,
Never foe can follow,
Never traitor stand;
We may trust Him fully
All for us to do;
They who trust Him wholly
Find Him wholly true.
Stayed upon Jehovah
Hearts are fully blest,
Finding, as He promised,
Perfect peace and rest.
1878
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