One of the artists I have been enjoying this year is Don Moen. One of the reoccuring themes that has come up this week as we have looked at the lives of a couple heroes from the beginning of the Old Testament was that they were people who “walked with God.” They were people who recognized the hand of the invisible God working in their lives to bring about a future they had yet to experience. I have been so deeply impressed by the realization that what is seen is really the product of the creativity from God in art, nature, construction, music and so many other ways. Recognizing that invisible God, active in our world is the challenge of faith. Lord, help me see!
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.
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]
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]
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. [Refrain]
United Methodist HymnalM, 1989
On the Way to Wonder 