on Psalm 16

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series, a day early this week, as I can't post for a few days]

O keep me sheltered safe, O God,
my refuge and my Lord.
Apart from you I have no good, –
rich grace you have outpoured:

a pleasant portion, sure, secure,
delightful fellowship
of fellow saints who love, support,
and God’s companionship;

your Holy Spirit, Counsellor
will teach and strengthen, guide;
my eye is fixed to follow God,
and he is at my side.

Christ is alive, I rest secure,
the path of life you show;
I’ll, in your presence, evermore
eternal pleasures know.

Like Jesus, it is not the grave,
that is our final home;
my eye is fixed to follow God,
heart, tongue rejoice in song.

But those who follow other ways
increasing sorrow reap;
so do not join with their false hopes,
nor the vain rites they keep.

Tune: CM eg tune of ‘Amazing Grace’

‘Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge … apart from you I have no good thing …The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods.… I will praise the Lord, who counsels me …I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. … You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16

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