Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days – UMH #269
Lord, who throughout these forty days
for us did fast and pray,
teach us with you to mourn our sins
and close by you to stay.
As you with Satan did contend,
and did the victory win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
in you to conquer sin.
As you did hunger and did thirst,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and so to live
by your most holy Word.
And through these days of penitence,
and through your Passiontide,
forevermore, in life and death,
O Lord, with us a bide.
Abide with us, that through this life
of doubts and hope and pain,
an Easter of unending joy
we may at last attain!
Claudia Frances Hernaman
Lord, who throughout these forty days
for us did fast and pray,
teach us with you to mourn our sins
and close by you to stay.
As you with Satan did contend,
and did the victory win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
in you to conquer sin.
As you did hunger and did thirst,
so teach us, gracious Lord,
to die to self, and so to live
by your most holy Word.
And through these days of penitence,
and through your Passiontide,
forevermore, in life and death,
O Lord, with us a bide.
Abide with us, that through this life
of doubts and hope and pain,
an Easter of unending joy
we may at last attain!
Claudia Frances Hernaman
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