11: Longing for More – Singing with Inspiration
Rest. The word used most frequently in our Sabbath School Lesson pamphlet this quarter. “Thou shalt rest, Thou shalt rest!” These are words repeated each verse of
Hymn 387 – Come, O Sabbath Day, our theme hymn for this quarter.We could add to the theme
Hymn 529 – Under His Wings. Each week of study this quarter, gives more and more of showing God’s deepest care for us, His children. As God’s children we find out about the Biblical family growing pains, and this still happens today. Yet, we are still “under His wings”.
As we are “all baptized into a new life of freedom from slavery” (Sunday) of this world, we are able to sing 
Hymn 258 – Baptize Us Anew.
The Rituals and Sacrifices studied on Monday conjure up a number of hymns:
Hymn 343 – I Will Sing of My Redeemer,
Hymn 402 – By Christ Redeemed,
Hymn 179 – The Wonders of Redeeming Love,
Hymn 177 – Jesus, Your Blood and Righteousness, and
Hymn 294 – Power in the Blood.
Hebrews 3:7-19 “is really a call for God’s people to be persevering in faith” –
Hymn 602 – O Brother, Be Faithful.
We then see “the lessons learned from God’s leading in the past seriously” –
Hymn 537 – He Leadeth Me,
Hymn 619 – Lead On, O King Eternal,
Hymn 653 – Lead Them, My God, to Thee, and
Hymn 691 – Lead Me, Lord, with Hebrews 4:3 pointing “to the close relationship between faith and rest” –
Hymn 523 – My Faith Has Found a Resting Place.
Thursday finalises with “resting in Jesus and trusting that His grace is sufficient to save and transform us”, is sung in
Hymn 529 – Under His Wings (verse 3).
Blessings for a wonderful week ahead.
To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/
Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing, but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
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