Today’s hymn focus will be “Have Thine Own Way, Lord”

 Jeremiah 18:6(NLT)              

“O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.”

Written in 1902, Adelaide A. Pollard was a teacher in a Chicago girls’ school and had a fine reputation as a Bible study teacher. She had a strong desire to be a missionary and was trying to raise funds to make a trip to Africa, and she was not being very successful. Because of this, she was experiencing a ‘distress of the soul”. 

The words of a simple prayer by an elderly woman provided her with the setting of a personal reflection on the will of God for her life. The prayer was “It really doesn’t matter what you do with us, Lord…just have Your way in our lives.”  She went home from that prayer meeting and wrote the hymn as we sing it today.      

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the Potter,

I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still.

We need to wake up each morning with this type of attitude. Not my will, but Your will, Lord, be done in my life, so that I will be filled with the Spirit till all they see is Christ living in me.

YOUTUBE:

Have Thine Own Way, Lord