Just As God Leads

 JUST AS GOD LEADS

Just as God leads me I would go;
I would not ask to choose my way,
Content with what he will bestow,
Assured he will not let me stray.
So, as he leads, my path I make,
And step by step I gladly take‚-
A child, in him confiding.

Just as God leads I am content;
I rest me calmly in his hands;
That which he has decreed and sent‚-
That which his will for me commands,-
I would that he should all fulfill,
That I should do his gracious will
In living or in dying.

Just as God leads me, I abide
In faith, in hope, in suffering true;
His strength is ever by my side‚-
Can aught my hold on him undo?
I hold me firm in patience, knowing
That God my life is still bestowing‚-
The best of kindness sending.

Just as God leads I onward go,
Out amid thorns and briers keen;
God does not yet his guidance show‚-
But in the end it shall be seen
How, by a loving Father's will,
- Faithful and true, he leads me still.
And so my heart is resting.

From the German.