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Hymnal Number
522Resource Type:
Keys included:
C
About this Hymn
This is a fresh interpretation of Psalm 23 using new language and phrasing. It is quite a challenge to find new ways to sing the most-used Bible passage in this hymnal. The music was inspired by my love of shape-note harmony singing in the early American church.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Good Shepherd of my soul,
come dwell within me;
take all I am and mold
your likeness in me.
Before the cross of Christ,
this is my sacrifice:
a life laid down
and ready to follow.
Verse 2
The troubled find their peace
in true surrender;
the pris'ners their release
from chains of anger.
In springs of living grace,
I find a resting place
to rise refreshed,
determined to follow.
Verse 3
I'll walk this narrow road
with Christ before me,
where thorns and thistles grow
and cords ensnare me.
Though doubted and denied,
he never leaves my side,
but lifts my head
and calls me to follow.
Verse 4
And when my days are gone,
my strength is failing;
he'll carry me along
through death's unveiling.
Earth's struggles overcome,
heav'n's journey just begun—
to search Christ's depths
and ever to follow.
Good Shepherd of my soul,
come dwell within me;
take all I am and mold
your likeness in me.
Before the cross of Christ,
this is my sacrifice:
a life laid down
and ready to follow.
Verse 2
The troubled find their peace
in true surrender;
the pris'ners their release
from chains of anger.
In springs of living grace,
I find a resting place
to rise refreshed,
determined to follow.
Verse 3
I'll walk this narrow road
with Christ before me,
where thorns and thistles grow
and cords ensnare me.
Though doubted and denied,
he never leaves my side,
but lifts my head
and calls me to follow.
Verse 4
And when my days are gone,
my strength is failing;
he'll carry me along
through death's unveiling.
Earth's struggles overcome,
heav'n's journey just begun—
to search Christ's depths
and ever to follow.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words & Music: Fionán de Barra, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, Stuart Townend © 2013 Fionán de Barra Pub Designee / Getty Music Publishing / Townend Songs (Capitol CMG Publishing / www.capitolcmgpublishing.com, Song Solutions / www.songsolutions.com)