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‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save’

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This is the U.S. Navy’s official hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save. Whenever I hear it I think of my father, Jersey-born and bred, who’d never been farther away from home than Pennsylvania: fresh out of high school in the midst of World War II, straight to the recruiting officer, and on to California, the Pacific, and the Philippines. And him all of 18 years old. It’s very hard to imagine. Such wars ought not to be; but that’s the fallen world: we didn’t get into our troubles by obeying God’s word.

The Navy Hymn (‘Eternal Father’)

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Extra hymn, before I go to the doctor’s office this morning.

Why the Navy hymn? Well, what are we, if we are not “those in peril on the sea”? And the good ship Western Civilization has a drunken captain, a suicidal crew, and no more anchor because the crazies cut the cable.

But Our Eternal Father nevertheless is able to save us. And He will. In fact, in fact of Jesus Christ… He already has.

The U.S. Navy Hymn, ‘Eternal Father’

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In honor of Memorial Day, and the grave soldiers, sailors, and airmen who died in defense of our country–and even more so, in honor of Our Father in Heaven who has so abundantly blessed this country (and little enough thanks He gets for it!)–the United States Navy hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save.

‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save’

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Let’s close out this day with Eternal Father, Strong to Save–not only the hymn of the United States Navy, but of all those, everywhere, who go down to the sea in ships.

I’ve never been to see, but my father was a Navy man. He never spoke of what it was really like to be on a fragile little ammunition supply ship on the vast ocean, with Japanese submarines on the loose. But I loved to look at the pictures he brought home.

The sea is hard, the sea is cruel. No man can tame it. But the sea does have a master: the Lord of Hosts, who created it and established its boundaries, who raises storms and quiets them: who says to the great waters, “Peace, be still.”

Praise Him, praise Him, all that draw breath.