Momentary

This morning I started with signing this hymn, Day by Day, And with Each Passing Moment. This hymn was written by Lina Sandell Berg after the tragic death of her father, a Lutheran pastor, who fell off a ship in Sweden in 1832.  Berg went on to write many more hymns that encouraged Swedish Christians and others, like me, to remember each day is a passing moment in light of eternity spent in heaven worshipping my heavenly Father and His son, Jesus Christ.

The Spirit laid on my heart these verses from 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 

Day by day, And with Each Passing Moment

Strength I find to meet my trials here;
Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment,
I've no cause for worry or for fear.
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure
Gives unto each day what He deems best--
Lovingly, its part of pain and pleasure,
Mingling toil with peace and rest.

Ev'ry day the Lord Himself is near me
With a special mercy for each hour;
All my cares He fain would bear, and cheer me,
He whose name is Counselor and Pow'r.
The protection of His child and treasure
Is a charge that on Himself He laid;
"As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure,"
This the pledge to me He made.

Help me then in eve'ry tribulation
So to trust Thy promises, O Lord,
That I lose not faith's sweet consolation
Offered me within Thy holy Word.
Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,
E'er to take, as from a father's hand,
One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,
Till I reach the promised land.