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Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 3 · Words: Gerhard Tersteegen
God Himself Is With Us
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →A translation of Gerhard Tersteegen's 1729 German hymn 'Gott ist gegenwärtig,' calling worshippers to awe and silence before God's immediate presence. The Foster–Miller English rendering has been standard in Moravian and other Protestant hymnals since 1789.
Verse 1
God Himself is with us; Let us all adore Him,
And with awe appear before Him.
God is here within us;
Soul, in silence fear Him,Humbly,
fervently draw near Him.
Now His own who have known God,
in worship lowly,Yield their spirits wholly.
Verse 2
Come, abide within me;
Let my soul, like Mary,
Be thine earthly sanctuary,
Come, in-dwelling Spirit,
With transfigured splendour;
Love and honour will I render.
Where I go here below,
Let me bow before Thee.
Verse 3
Gladly we surrender
Earth's deceitful treasures,
Pride of Life, and sinful pleasures:
Gladly, Lord, we offer Thine to be forever,
Soul and life and each endeavour.
Thou alone shalt be known
Lord of all our being,
Life's true way declaring.
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