• “Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, you stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don’t need to search any further for security.” – Elisabeth Elliot

Nineteenth Day – Loyal Responses – by Francis R. Havergal

Nobody Knows But Jesus

I.
‘NOBODY knows but Jesus!’
‘Tis only the old refrain
Of a quaint, pathetic slave-song,
But it comes again and again.

II.
I only heard it quoted,
And I do not know the rest;
But the music of the message
Was wonderfully blessed.

III.
For it fell upon my spirit
Like sweetest twilight psalm,
When the breezy sunset waters
Die into starry calm.

IV.
‘Nobody knows but Jesus!’
Is it not better so,
That no one else but Jesus,
My own dear Lord, should know?

V.
When the sorrow is a secret
Between my Lord and me,
I learn the fuller measure
Of His quick sympathy.

VI.
Whether it be so heavy,
That dear ones could not bear
To know the bitter burden
They could not come and share;

VII.
Whether it be so tiny,
That others could not see
Why it should be a trouble,
And seem so real to me;

VIII.
Either, and both, I lay them
Down at my Master’s feet,
And find them, alone with Jesus,
Mysteriously sweet.

IX.
Sweet, for they bring me closer
To the dearest, truest Friend;
Sweet, for He comes the nearer,
As ‘neath the cross I bend;

X.
Sweet, for they are the channels
Through which His teachings flow
Sweet, for by these dark secrets
His heart of love I know.

XL.
‘Nobody knows but Jesus!’
It is music for to-day,
And through the darkest hours
It will chime along the way.

XII.
‘Nobody knows but Jesus!’
My Lord, I bless Thee now
For the sacred gift of sorrow
That no one knows but Thou.

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  • “I never felt such an entire emptiness of self-love, or any regard to any private, selfish interest of my own. It seemed to me, that I had entirely done with myself. I felt that the opinions of the world concerning me were nothing, and that I had no more to do with any outward interest of my own, than with that of a person whom I never saw. The glory of God seemed to be all, and in all, and to swallow up every wish and desire of my heart” – Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards

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