Text: Hebrews 2. Hymn: 750, If Thou But Trust in God to Guide Thee.
Wer Nur Den Lieben Gott is a great tune, but the quarter rests after every phrase would have led me to believe he had problems with his lungs, not his eyes. 
I know Lutherans are supposed to have Galatians or Romans for a favorite book of the Bible, but Hebrews is becoming mine. All of the gospel behind the substitutionary atonement speaks of a holy yet merciful God. Thank God I don’t have to earn my salvation, and what a wonderful and holy place the new heaven and earth will be!
TURRIE on 
Dan
I think Pr. Weedon may agree with you about Hebrews. He seems to really like it.
At least from hearing him on Issues Etc and reading his blog.
That’s company I don’t mind keeping.
I would heartily agree!
This hymn always makes me think…
The first verse seems to imply something along the lines of, “If you just trust in God 100%, if you just surrender to His will, if you just [insert your favorite catchphrase here], Then God will give you strength and see you though.”
The last verse exhorts us to “Sing, pray and keep His ways unswerving, perform thy duties faithfully, and trust His Word…”
It is a heavy hymn with heavy lyrics. It is in the 4th verse where the Gospel message comes through all these exhortations.
God knows full well when times of gladness
Shall be the needful thing for thee.
When he has tried thy soul with sadness
And from all guile has found thee free,
He comes to thee all unaware
And makes thee own His loving care.
To spin this into a confessional manner, it is God who brings us our faith and places it in our hearts. Our trust rests in His gifts to us and not in our own abilities. He comes to us when we are “unaware,” when we think there is no one who can help, when we are in utter despair, when we feel like we have no trust left.
Yet in our utter despair, God brings us His grace and peace, His love and absolution, His body and blood. They come from outside of us, through His Word (read, spoken, or preached), through Absolution and through the Eucharist.
Good points.
This looks like a big Law hymn, since it is telling you what to do. With such law hymns we not only confess our Third Use of the Law (and attempt to do these) but also our Second Use. Do I trust in God, or do I try to get my way outside of what’s prescribed in his Word? Am I patient? Do I await his time of leisure? No, I don’t. We don’t. Thus we confess our sin and receive forgiveness. May God grant us this trust in Him that we need.
Amen, brother!