O Jesus, Friend Unfailing (Little Flock Hymnbook #16*)

16*. O Jesus, Friend Unfailing

7,6.

by H.K. Burlingham, 1865, from German

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O Jesus, Friend unfailing,

How dear art Thou to me!

Are cares or fears assailing?

I find my strength in Thee!

Why should my feet grow weary

Of this my pilgrim way?

Rough though the path and dreary,

It ends in perfect day!

“A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” (Proverbs 18:24)

“And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.” (Matthew 8:26)

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)

“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” (Hebrews 12:3)

“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.” (1 Peter 2:11)

“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18)

Naught, naught I court as pleasure,

Compared, O Christ, with Thee!

Thy sorrow, without measure,

Earned peace and joy for me.

I love to own, Lord Jesus,

Thy claims o’er me divine,

Bought with Thy blood most precious,

Whose can I be but Thine!

“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” (Philippians 3:7-8)

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” (1 Peter 1:18-19)

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

What fills my heart with gladness?

’Tis Thine abounding grace!

Where can I look in sadness,

But, Jesus, on Thy face?

My all is Thy providing,

Thy love can ne’er grow cold;

In Thee, my Refuge, hiding,

No good wilt Thou withhold.

“Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” (Romans 5:20)

Why should I droop in sorrow?

Thou’rt ever by my side!

Why, trembling, dread the morrow?