Devotional – April 9, 2025

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

The United Methodist Hymnal Number 269

Text: Claudia F. Hernaman, 1873 (Mt. 4:1-11; Mk. 1:12-13; Lk. 4:1-13)

Music: USA folk melody; arr. by Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1938; harm. by Charles H.

Tune: LAND OF REST, Meter: CM

1 Lord, who throughout these forty days,

For us did fast and pray,

Teach us with you to mourn our sins,

And close by you to stay.

2 As you with Satan did contend,

And did the vict’ry win,

O give us strength in you to fight,

In you to conquer sin.

3 As you did hunger bear and thirst,

So teach us, gracious Lord,

To die to self, and always live

By your most holy word.

4 And through these days of penitence,

And through your Passion-tide,

Forevermore, in life and death,

O Lord, with us abide.

5 Abide with us that when this life

Of suffering is past,

An Easter of unending joy

We may attain at last!

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days – OUMC Choir

Peace Be With You. – Paul