I remember this hymn from Sunday school–and we weren’t even Welsh.
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah–the tune serves several different sets of lyrics. This is the one I remember best.
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‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
This Welsh melody, Cwm Rhondda, provides the music for several hymns. Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer (shown here), Bread of Heaven, Guide Us O Thou Great Jehovah, just to name three.
Nothing like a Welsh hymn to gird your loins for the day.
‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
I haven’t got a hymn request this morning, so I’m on my own. I have selected Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer (“Cwm Rhondda,” in Welsh), sung by St. Michael’s Singers. Background sets by God the Father.
Please pray for us. We haven’t gotten Peep to eat anything yet today.
‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
Turn up the volume and sing along. Sometimes there’s nothing better for a hymn than a full orchestra playing it and a couple thousand people singing it. And I think they’re in the Royal Albert Hall, although I’m not 100% sure of that.
Anyway, this is the ancient Welsh hymn, Cwm Rhondda, in one of its English-language versions, Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer. I’ll be surprised if they don’t sing this one in Heaven.
‘Lead Me O Thou Great Redeemer’ (Wow!)
I can’t talk just now! Not without my voice breaking. But it’s okay–it’s just that this hymn set my soul to soaring. Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer: with the chapel packed to the rafters, organ, choir, and congregation cutting loose with all they’ve got–you can’t ask for more than this. If I’d been there in person, I’d’ve cried my eyes out: tears of joy.
‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
A full orchestra, full choir, and the Royal Albert Hall packed with singers–and the traditional Welsh hymn, Cwm Rhondda, here rendered into English as Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer… Really, if this doesn’t stir your soul, ask someone to hold a mirror under your nose and see if you fog it.
‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
Turn up the volume! You don’t have to be Welsh to love this hymn, and feel it stir your soul–Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer.
You may also know it as Bread of Heaven. In my church’s old hymnal, it had its Welsh title, Cwn Rhondda, which confused me for many years.
Hymn, ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
This Welsh melody is traditionally called Cwm Rhondda and has various renderings into English. I’ve posted it once as Bread of Heaven. This is a very popular hymn and a good way to start our day. This is another one you can really belt out–and should.
I don’t mean to turn into a Christian DJ or something like that, but suddenly these hymns seem mighty important. We live in an anti-Christian age, in a Christian country that is rapidly being de-Christianized, debauched, and debased before our very eyes.
Hymns are a way of connecting with our God, and the time has come to sing them louder, louder, every day.
He will hear us.