Devotional – May 26, 2025

Let My People Seek Their Freedom

The United Methodist Hymnal Number 586

Text: T. Herbert O’Driscoll

Music: Thomas J. Williams

Tune: EBENEZER, Meter: 87.87 D

Let my people seek their freedom

in the wilderness awhile,

from the slave pens of the Delta,

from the ghettos on the Nile:

So God spoke from out of Sinai,

so God spoke and it was done,

and a people crossed the waters

toward the rising of the sun.

Let my people seek their freedom

in the wilderness awhile,

from the aging shrines and structures,

from the cloister and the aisle:

so the Son of God has spoken,

and the storm clouds are unfurled,

for God’s people must be scattered

to be servants in the world.

When we murmur on the mountains

for the old Egyptian plains,

when we miss our ancient bondage,

and the hope, the promise, wanes;

then the rock shall yield its water

and the manna fall by night,

and with visions of a future

shall we march toward the light.

In the maelstrom of the nations,

in the journeying into space,

in the clash of generations,

in the hungering for grace,

in the agony and glory,

we are called to newer ways

by the Lord of our tomorrows

and the God of earth’s todays

Peace Be With You. – Paul