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The Old Year Wanes

Liturgical Use: New Year's Eve
Text:
John Kassen
Tune:
"Morning Hymn" by Nicholas Herman, 1480-1561
Suggested Use: New Year's Eve

The Old Year Wanes

The old year wanes a new arrives
And with it possibility
To pray forgiveness for our past
And ask God's blessings yet to be.

 Like Job whose life was wrenched apart
By forces he'd not comprehend,
He grew to love his Lord and God
Accepting His harsh reprimand.

 Job's friends assumed that he had sinned
And thus deserved this consequence.
Suff
-'ring was caused - in their world view -
By God's determined providence.

 God's promise, on the other hand,
Suggested that Job's harsh estate
Resulted not from simple sin
But came from God to test his faith.

Job later learned when all else failed
That God was all he'd ever need.
His faith in a redeeming Christ: 
An all-sufficient guarantee.

 Let not our faith drift far from God
For Jesus suffered more than we
To grant us better life on earth
And heaven for eternity.

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To

God

Be

The

Glory!