What God Ordains is Always Good

What God Ordains is Always Good

by Samuel Rodigast (1649-1708)

What God ordains is always good:

His will is just and holy.

As He directs my life for me,

I follow meek and lowly.

My God indeed in ev'ry need

knows well how He will shield me;

to Him, then, I will yield me.

What God ordains is always good:

He never will deceive me;

He leads me in His righteous way,

and never will He leave me.

I take content what He has sent;

His hand that sends me sadness

will turn my tears to gladness.

What God ordains is always good:

His loving thought attends me;

no poison can be in the cup

that my Physician sends me.

My God is true; each morning new

I trust His grace unending,

My life to Him commending.

What God ordains is always good:

He is my Friend and Father;

He suffers naught to do me harm

though many storms may gather.

Now I may know both joy and woe;

some day I shall see clearly

that He has loved me dearly.

What God ordains is always good:

though I the cup am drinking

which savors now of bitterness,

I take it without shrinking.

For after grief God gives relief,

my heart with comfort filling

and all my sorrow stilling.

What God ordains is always good:

this truth remains unshaken.

Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,

I shall not be forsaken.

I fear no harm, for with His arm

He shall embrace and shield me;

so to my God I yield me.

(Thanks to Leah Ammons for suggesting that I put these lovely words to a new tune.)