Hymn/Song Information

COUNSEL

Oh dear pilgrim are you troubled,
By the darkness of the way?
Do your sorrows and your burdens,
Fill you heart with dark dismay?
Do your toils and your tears and troubles,
Grieve your heart from day to day?
Does you soul in meditation,
Often long fly away?

Then, Oh listen to your Savior,
As He kindly sweetly calls,
"Come to Me ye heavy laden,
I will take your burdens all
Come and take my yoke upon you,
Learn of me from day to day,
List to my loving counsel,
I will help you all the way."

On the road from earth to glory,
Many pitfalls to abide,
Satan often darkens counsel,
And the pitfalls often hide,
" I will lead you on your journey
In your travels here below,
I will guide your feeble footsteps,
Thru this vale of sin and woe"

Thus the Savior gives His counsel,
To His children here on earth,
For He loves each one so dearly,
That for them He gave His life.
Then, Oh then we all should listen,
To His words so kind and true,
Walk with Him and seek His presence,
Day by day the journey thru.

Some sweet day we hope to see Him,
In that home above the sky.
Wholly be His race and favor,
We shall see Him by and by.
Then let's listen to His counsel,
For He too has passed this way,
And soon return from heaven,
to take us home to stay.