Music & HymnsThy Way, Not Mine, O Lord

"The Lord will guide you always." Isaiah 58:11

Courtesy of Free Church of Scotland

Words: Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope, 1857.

Music: "St. Cecilia," Leighton George Hayne, 1863, Merton Tune Book

Rev. Leighton Hayne (1836-1883) was born in Exeter, England. He attended Eton and Queens Colleges at Oxford, conducted the university chorus, and was Eton College's organist. He also pastored at Mistley and Bradfield, Essex.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be;
Lead me by Thine own hand,
Choose out the path for me.

Smooth let it be or rough,
It will be still the best;
Winding or straight, it leads
Right onward to Thy rest.

I dare not choose my lot;
I would not, if I might;
Choose Thou for me, my God,
So I shall walk aright.

Take Thou my cup, and it
With joy or sorrow fill,
As best to Thee may seem;
Choose Thou my good and ill.

Choose Thou for me my friends,
My sickness or my health;
Choose Thou my cares for me
My poverty or wealth.

The kingdom that I seek
Is Thine: so let the way
That leads to it be Thine,
Else I must surely stray.

Not mine, not mine the choice
In things or great or small;
Be Thou my Guide, my Strength
My Wisdom, and my All.

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