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A Sunday School Standby, ‘Trust and Obey’

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As you can see, I can still copy and paste videos this morning, so I’d better hustle before the computer decides it won’t do that, either.

We must have sung Trust and Obey hundreds of times in Sunday school. Tradition has it that the hymn, published in 1887, arose from an exchange between evangelist Dwight L. Moody and a man in his audience, who found the point Moody was trying to make a little too complicated for him and so remarked something to the effect of, “Well, then, I guess I’ll just have to trust and obey!”

Not a bad fall-back position at all.

Bonus Hymn, ‘Trust and Obey’

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Tradition has it that John Sammis was inspired to write this hymn, in 1887, by something he heard at one of Dwight L. Moody’s revival meetings. Someone raised his hand and said (I paraphrase), “I’m not sure about what some of this means, but I will trust and obey.”

If this hymn doesn’t move you, I don’t know what will.

Thank you, Erlene, for suggesting it.

 

Hymn, ‘Trust and Obey’

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Having received no hymn requests for this morning, I chose this one–just because it came into my mind. A good old hymn.

But of course we don’t trust God, neither do we obey Him. Maybe we trust in gravity waves. Or in people who say they’ve just discovered gravity waves. We nod sagely and mutter, “Uh-huh, yep, gravity waves,” as if we had any idea at all of what we were talking about.

God have mercy on us.

Hymn, ‘Trust and Obey’

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Children singing Trust and Obey–it brings me back to Sunday school.

What did Jesus mean when He said that unless we become as little children, we will not be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Something to think about…

Hymn, ‘Trust and Obey’

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Here’s another oldie–and boy, if we ever needed to walk by faith, if we ever needed to trust and obey, we need it now.

Our country has been taken into captivity by the very persons to whom we entrusted her care and maintenance. Thus God chastises His people for pride and sloth and lack of love, for getting fat and forgetting Him. Now wicked and despicable people lord it over us.

Let us hold these hymns as we grope our way through the darkness back to God.