Sovereign Lord, as you have promised

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Scriptures:
  • Luke 2:29-34
Book Number:
  • 1116

Sovereign Lord, as you have promised,
now dismiss this soul in peace,
for my eyes have seen salvation,
for my heart has known release
from the sin that lies within me
staining thoughts and words and ways;
you have healed, forgiven and saved me:
let me sing your endless praise.

2 So it was that God’s dear servant,
through his many watchful years,
had expected what he saw now,
filled his heart with thankful tears.
Gracious Lord, this great salvation
you’ve prepared for all to see.
You’ve revealed in Christ a Saviour
sent to make your people free.

3 Here this child, as Israel’s glory,
from of old in David’s line,
will bring grief and cause division,
yet his birth’s a glorious sign
shedding light and hope for Gentiles
and that Israelites may know
that God’s boundless loving mercy
is our source of strength below.

4 So it is that I am ready
to depart when you shall say,
trusting in your certain promise
to be with me for that day.
For as Simeon blessed the parents
of that precious infant King,
gladly we submit in worship
as in love and praise we sing.

© 2009 ALISON JENNER/PRAISE TRUST
Alison Jenner

The Christian Life - Submission and Trust

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Tune

The story behind the hymn

Written in 2002 as a spontaneous response to the assistant pastor commenting that he had noted not many hymns were written about Simeon, from Luke 1, so I wrote one. My third son, Luke, then wrote a tune for it, calling it ‘Ulverston’, where we were shortly due to move.  

A look at the author

Jenner, Alison

Mrs Alison Jenner was born in Chelmsford in 1948. She attended Buttsbury County Primary School in Billericay and two small private schools in Essex and Hampshire.

Alison gained an N.N.E.B. in nursery nursing and an S.C. M. in midwifery. She married Jack Jenner in 1973, who was the Pastoral Assistant at Welwyn Evangelical Church. Jack was called as the pastor of Newtown Evangelical Church in Cheshum, Bucks in 1981. They have five sons, one of whom died when he was two years old.

Alison worked occasionally with special needs children, but considered her main career as a pastor’s wife and the mother of boys!

Alison and Jack moved to Ulverston, Cumbria in 2003 to help with a church plant. They have three granddaughters.

Alison has self-published two poetry collections, ‘Declaring God’s Glory’ and ‘Kaleidoscope’.

Alison is published by Praise! online at numbers 1049, 1116.