262 DAY BY DAY (E)

1 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.

2 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 your days, your strength shall be in measure,” this the pledge to me he made.

3 Help me then in ev'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 with Christ the Lord I stand.