Here’s the Covenant Christian School choir that my daughters are privileged to sing in. The students love their choir director, Eric Gritters, who wrote this moving song. It begins with the Christian in darkness, but then moves into powerful exclamations of triumphant faith.
O now I lay me down to sleep
— I can’t find words for prayer.
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
— but does my Shepherd care?
Who will watch me through the night,
in darkness as in light?
Who will wake me in the morn?
In whom can I delight?
My tired eyes, they look above
— they fall and look below.
Yet there is none who seem to care
— My pain they do not know.
I hear no voice. I feel no touch.
I see no glory bright.
His promises are not seen
— I do not see his might.
But God, He will never leave me!
But God, he is my strength!
But God, my faithful Shepherd!
He is my Rock, my only Hope.
O now I lay me down to sleep
— I know the Shepherd’s near.
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
— I have no need to fear.
Gently watch me through the night
— And when the morning breaks,
Walk beside me down life’s pathway,
and all for Jesus’ sake!
But God, He will never leave me!
But God, He is my strength!
But God, my faithful Shepherd,
He is my Rock, my only Hope.
But God, He will never leave me.
But God, He is my strength.
But God, my faithful Shepherd,
He is my Rock, my only Hope.
“Because they lovingkindness is better than life
My lips shall praise thee!”
My Rock. My Hope. My God.