May your unfailing love be my comfort,
according to your promise to your servant

Psalm 119:76 (NIV)

When worldly treasures perish and fade

And their charms can’t provide for tomorrow

How can a man who is thirsting for hope

Become freed and relieved of his sorrow?

Where can he turn in the hour of thin light

When shadows reach out and grow long?

God’s word in the dark; a promise that’s sure

Offers hope with an evergreen song

Comfort of comfort, worn soul’s lullaby

Kindness to silence tempestuous cries

Hope for the hopeless, the saviour who died

Conquering death and now off’ring new life

Unfailing love flows mercifully down

In a cascade of life giving light

Christ risen saviour, God’s only son

Takes my burden and puts shame to flight

A colourless frame surrenders to hope

When it’s soaked in this eternal word

Warmed by the promise of unfailing love

With his strength I will gladly step forward.