Musings on a Sunday hymn.
I have been reading transcripts and discussions of the debate between (Presbyterian pastor) Mark D. Roberts and Christopher Hitchens on the latter's book "god is not great." I was thinking about Hitchens when we sang an old Psalter hymn this morning "God Moves in a Mysterious Way" by William Cowper.
The last verse is the following:
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan his work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
Also, for fans (like me) of Jars of Clay's "There is a River", another verse of the hymn is interesting:
Ye Fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Of course, because this hymn is written in common meter, you can sing it to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song.
We also sang "Morning Has Broken" and "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" --- a beautiful service at First Havana.
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