How blessed is life if lived for you

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Psalms 1:1-2
  • Psalms 3:5
  • Psalms 32:8
  • Psalms 34:8-10
  • Psalms 36:9
  • Psalms 4:7-8
  • Psalms 91:10
  • Psalms 91:5-6
  • Isaiah 25:4
  • Isaiah 50:4
  • Matthew 7:13-14
  • Mark 14:67
  • Romans 8:16-17
  • 1 Corinthians 13:12
  • 1 Corinthians 6:20
  • Galatians 4:5
  • Ephesians 6:10
  • Colossians 1:11
  • 1 Timothy 2:6
  • James 1:17
  • 1 Peter 1:18-19
  • 1 Peter 2:21-24
  • 2 Peter 3:18
  • 1 John 2:17
Book Number:
  • 840

How blessed is life if lived for you,
my loving Saviour and my Lord:
no pleasures that the world can give
such perfect gladness can afford.

2. To know I am your ransomed child,
bought by your own most precious blood,
and from your loving hand to take
with grateful heart each gift of good.

3. All day to walk beneath your smile,
watching your eye to guide me still,
to rest at night beneath your care,
guarded by you from every ill.

4. To feel that though I journey on
by stony paths and rugged ways,
my master’s feet have gone before
and strength is given for weary days.

5. Such love shall ever make me glad,
strong in your strength to work or rest,
until I see you face to face
and in your light am fully blessed.

Prust’s Supplementary Hymn Book 1869

The Christian Life - Commitment and Obedience

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Tune

  • Silver Hill
    Silver Hill
    Metre:
    • LM (Long Metre: 88 88)
    Composer:
    • Hill, Clement

The story behind the hymn

This straightforward hymn about the blessings of ‘commitment and obedience’ remains anonymous. It is headed ‘Life in Christ’ in E T Prust’s Supplementary Hymn Book of 1869, and included in Henry Allon’s Congregational Psalmist Hymnal in 1886. Its theme relates to Psalm 139:2–3, 1 Peter 1:18–19 and 1 John 3:1, without being closely tied to any one source. The changes made here are minimal.

Clement Hill’s tune SILVER HILL is set to other hymns in GH and the New Redemption Hymnal; this latter credits it to F C Maker.

A look at the author

Prust's Supplementary Hymn Book, 1869

A compilation by E T Prust from which one text survives in several 20th-c books. No.840.