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Thou Hidden Source
Verse 1
Thou hidden source of calm repose,
Thou all-sufficient love divine;
My help and refuge from my foes,
Secure I am if thou art mine,
From sin and grief, from guilt and shame;
I hide me, Jesus, in Thy name.
Thou all-sufficient love divine;
My help and refuge from my foes,
Secure I am if thou art mine,
From sin and grief, from guilt and shame;
I hide me, Jesus, in Thy name.
Verse 2
Thy mighty name salvation is,
And keeps my happy soul above;
Comfort it brings, and power and peace,
And joy and everlasting love;
To me with Thy dear name, are given
Pardon and holiness and heaven.
And keeps my happy soul above;
Comfort it brings, and power and peace,
And joy and everlasting love;
To me with Thy dear name, are given
Pardon and holiness and heaven.
Verse 3
Jesus, my all in all Thou art,
My rest in toil, my ease in pain;
The medicine of my broken heart;
In war, my peace; in loss, my gain;
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown;
In shame, my glory and my crown.
My rest in toil, my ease in pain;
The medicine of my broken heart;
In war, my peace; in loss, my gain;
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown;
In shame, my glory and my crown.
Verse 4
In want, my plentiful supply;
In weakness, my almighty power;
In bonds, my perfect liberty;
My light in Satan's darkest hour;
In grief, my joy unspeakable;
My life in death; my heaven, my all.
In weakness, my almighty power;
In bonds, my perfect liberty;
My light in Satan's darkest hour;
In grief, my joy unspeakable;
My life in death; my heaven, my all.
Wesley's hymn celebrates the mystical union with Christ and the hidden life hid with Christ in God.