In heavenly love abiding

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Genesis 5:22-24
  • Genesis 6:9
  • Psalms 16:1
  • Psalms 16:11
  • Psalms 23:1-2
  • Psalms 27:1-6
  • Psalms 34:9-10
  • Proverbs 1:1-8
  • Proverbs 4:18
  • Ezekiel 34:14
  • Daniel 2:22
  • Daniel 3:19-28
  • Matthew 6:21
  • Luke 24:15
  • John 10:9
  • John 15:10
  • John 5:37
  • 1 Corinthians 1:30
  • 2 Timothy 1:12
Book Number:
  • 748

In heavenly love abiding,
no change my heart shall fear:
and safe is such confiding,
for nothing changes here:
the storm may roar around me,
my heart may low be laid;
my Father’s arms surround me,
how can I be afraid?

2. Wherever he may guide me
no want shall turn me back;
my Shepherd is beside me
and nothing can I lack:
his wisdom stands for ever,
his sight is never dim;
his love will leave me never
and I will walk with him.

3. Green pastures are before me,
which yet I have not seen;
bright skies will shine with glory
where threatening clouds have been:
my hope I cannot measure,
my path to life is free;
my Saviour has my treasure
and he will walk with me.

© In this version Jubilate Hymns This text has been altered by Praise! An unaltered JUBILATE text can be found at www.jubilate.co.uk
Anna L Waring 1823-1910

The Christian Life - Freedom in Christ

Downloadable Items

Would you like access to our downloadable resources?

Unlock downloadable content for this hymn by subscribing today. Enjoy exclusive resources and expand your collection with our additional curated materials!

Subscribe now

If you already have a subscription, log in here to regain access to your items.

Tune

  • Penlan
    Penlan
    Metre:
    • 76 76 D
    Composer:
    • Jenkins, David

The story behind the hymn

‘I will walk with him … He will walk with me’; Anna Laetitia Waring here provides a similar biblical pattern to that of Paxton Hood at 663: ‘O walk with Jesus … O walk with us’. This, the best known of her hymns, was published in her Hymns and Meditations in 1850; it was marked only with the initials ALW and headed ‘Safety in God: “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me

A look at the author

Waring, Anna Laetitia

b Plas-y-Velin, Neath, Glam (Neath) 1823, d Clifton, Bristol 1910. After an upbringing within the Society of Friends, and for a while attending Bethany Baptist Ch in Cardiff, she joined the CofE at the age of 19, being baptized at St Martin’s, Winnall, Winchester. She learnt Hebrew in order to study the original OT text and read each day from the Heb Psalms. In 1850 she compiled Hymns and Meditations which included 19 of her own texts (over the initials ‘ALW’ only), and 39 by the time of its 10th edn. She was a keen advocate of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Soc, and visited prisoners in the jails in Bristol and beyond. Her hymns feature more in Baptist books than Anglican ones; like the 1962 Baptist Hymn Book, Christian Worship (Brethren, 1977) and GH each have 3 of them. George Crawford in Julian recognised their ‘great simplicity, concentration of thought, and elegance of diction…They are popular, and deserve to be so’. No.748.