If you but trust in God to guide you    

1) If you but trust in God to guide you
and place your confidence in him,
you'll find him always there beside you
to give you hope and strength within;
for those who trust God's changeless love
build on the rock that will not move.

2) Only be still and wait his pleasure
in cheerful hope with heart content.
He fills your needs to fullest measure
with what discerning love has sent;
doubt not our inmost wants are known
to him who chose us for his own.

3) What gain is there in futile weeping,
in helpless anger and dis-tress?
If you are in his care and keeping.
in sorrow will he love you less?
For he Who took for you a cross
will bring you safe through ev'ry loss.

4) In patient trust await his leisure
in cheerful hope, With heart content
to take what e'er your Father's pleasure
and all-discerning love have sent;
doubt not your inmost wants are known
to him Who chose you for his own.

5) Sing, pray, and keep his ways unswerving,
offer your service faithfully,
and trust his word; though undeserving,
you'll find his promise true to be.
God never will forsake in need
the soul that trusts in him indeed.