HYMN - GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS.

 NOVEMBER 8TH



TEXT: Psalms 9:10, 36:5-7; 1-02:11, 12; James 1:17.

Memory Verse: Because of the Lords great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations3:22, 23)

One of the important lessons the children of Israel had to learn during their wilderness journey was that God's provision of manna for them was on a morning by morning basis. They could not survive von old manna nor could it be stored for future use (exodus16:19-21).

While many enduring hymns are born out of a particular dramatic experience, this was simply the result of the author's "morning by morning" realization of God's personal faithfulness in his daily life. Shortly before his death in 1960, Thomas Chisholm wrote:


My income has never been large at any time due to impaired health in the earlier years which has followed me on until now. But I must not fail to record here the unfailing faithfulness of a covenant keeping God and that He has given me many wonderful displays of His providing care which have filled me with astonishing gratefulness.


Thomas Obadiah Chisholm was born in a crude log cabin in Franklin, Kentucky. From this humble beginning and without the benefit of high school or advanced education, he somehow began his career as a school teacher at the age of 16 in the same country school where he had received his elementary training. after accepting Christ as savior, he became editor of THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD and later was ordained as a Methodist minister. Throughout his long lifetime, Mr. Chisholm wrote more than 1,200 sacred poems, many of which have since become prominent hymn texts.


Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father!

There is no shadow of turning with thee;

thou changest not thy compassions, they fail not:

as thou hast been thou shall forever be.


Summer and winter and

spring time and harvest

sun moon and stars in their courses above,

Join with all nature in manifold witness

to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.


Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth,

thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide,

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow-

blessings all mine, with ten beside.
TAKEN FROM “AMAZING GRACE; 366 INSPIRING HYMN STORIES FOR DAILY DEVOTION”