Trust and Obey

One of my favorite hymns since I began going to church 40 some-odd years ago is Trust and Obey. 
I learned it on the clarinet and the one-handed piano version that the untrained musician does. Sometimes it will just pop in my head. But what about the words...hmmm, something has been amiss.

Almost four years ago, I prayed that the Lord show me clearly my path.  So many choices, so much confusion as to what path I should take.  I got my answer in what I would call a supernatural way.  I woke up in the wee hours of the morning-about 3am and opened my bible.  There was a whole chapter that came alive.  I read and heard every instruction that God was giving me.  I wrote it down verse by verse and how it applied to me.  And I worked on it: quitting a stressful, well-paying job, investing time at home in wifely and motherly duties.  Then I doubted. I needed to do something else because this seemed a bit hard.  I got another job and a different position and another position over the course of three years.  Nothing was giving me peace.  When I stopped and looked around one day, things had changed, definitely, but not for the better.  The finances weren't better, the health wasn't better, the peace at home wasn't better; everything had deteriorated.  From the wooden deck to the checking account to the marriage. You name it, it had not maintained, let alone prospered.  I have still struggled with "helping" the family by getting a job or even going to school and get a career to secure our future as I could get a job more than likely being the main bread-winner, but... Time to get that little green journal back out and read my instructions again! Or even call mom-she knew it all along too.
TRUST and OBEY!!

Trust and Obey

Hymn Writer ~ John H. Sammis, 1846-1919

Hymn Music ~ Daniel B. Towner, 1850-1919
Stanza 1:

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. 
Refrain:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way

To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. 
Stanza 2:

Not a burden we bear,

Not a sorrow we share,

But our toil He doth richly repay;

Not a grief or a loss,

Not a frown or a cross,

But is blest if we trust and obey. 
(Refrain)
Stanza 3:

But we never can prove

The delights of His love

Until all on the altar we lay;

For the favor He shows,

For the joy He bestows,

Are for them who will trust and obey. 
(Refrain)

Stanza 4:

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.