Trust and Obey
When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey.
Trust and Obey, for there’s no other way To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.
Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies, But His smile quickly drives it away; Not a doubt, nor a fear, not a sigh nor a tear, Can abide while we trust and obey
But we never can prove the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows and the joy He bestows are for them who will trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet, Or we’ll walk by His side in the way; What He says we will do, where He sends
we will go….Never fear, only trust and obey.
Text by John H Sammis (1846 – 1919)
Music by Daniel B. Towner (1850-1919)
1John 5:1-3, TLB
If you believe that Jesus is the Christ—that He is God’s Son and your Savior – then you are a child of God. And all who love the Father love His children too.
So you can find out how much you love God’s children —
your brothers and sisters in the Lord – by how much you love and obey God, Loving God means doing what He tells us to do.
This song was written after a D. L. Moody evangelistic
meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts. Daniel Towner,
the director of the Music Department at Moody,
was the song leader that night in 1886, and he asked
people to share how they had been saved. Several stood
and spoke of how certain they felt of their salvation. But
then a young man rose and said. “I am not quite sure, but
I am going to trust, and I am going to obey.”
Towner couldn’t forget that testimony. He jotted it down
and sent it to John Sammis, who recently left a career in
business to enter the ministry, with the hope that Sammis
would find in it the inspiration for a hymn text. Towner
was not disappointed.
Notes from “One Year Book of Hymns”, Tyndale House Pub.
Trust Him more completely, and obey His leading more fully.
Take this song with you to remind you to Trust and Obey
