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God Is Faithful…All Year ‘Round

It’s been quite a year.

In the past twelve months, I’ve been through a major surgery and a minor surgery. I’ve buried a younger sister, an old friend, and a mentor. My wife, a four-year survivor of a heart attack, had a sudden return to the hospital, requiring angioplasty. We moved back to Texas after twenty eight years in Nashville, saying good-bye to family and friends. I took on the task of offering my own choral music online.

Lots of stresses.

As I pondered all this recently, I was struck by God’s unwavering faithfulness. No matter the grief, the pain, or the worry, God remained – constant and sure. So I did what songwriters do: I wrote a song about it.  Only it wasn’t in a flash of inspiration and a burst of creativity. I didn’t stumble onto a killer hook line and write the song from there. It didn’t pour out of me at the keyboard. It was more a process of discovery – like slowly unwrapping a gift.

For the past few months, I have been dwelling on Psalm 18:30-31. God’s way is perfect. God’s Word is proven.  I knew those words were waiting for me to set them to music, only I didn’t have a melody or all the other words I needed to go with them. So I put them on a Post-It note and stuck it on my desk – a daily reminder to write a song with these words. After Cindy’s recent heart scare, those words began to really sink in, and I sat down to deliberately craft a song around them.  The result is the product of several days of creative evolution: writing and rewriting, adding and cutting, and even flipping verses and phrases around. (Hey, if I’m gonna write a song about God’s faithfulness, I should be faithful enough to work at it.)

I think I got it right. (Time will tell.) And I hope to make it available here at the website in the future. For now, here are the lyrics. And if you’re having a year like the one I’ve had, I hope they will be of some help to you.

FAITHFUL
Words and Music by Robert Sterling

OUR PATH IS WINDING
AND SOMETIMES UNCERTAIN.
WE FACE THE DAY
UNSURE AND AFRAID.
BUT GOD’S HAND SUSTAINS US.
HE NEVER FORSAKES US.
HE LIFTS US UP
AND SHOWS US THE WAY.

(Chorus)
GOD IS FAITHFUL, EVER FAITHFUL,
UNFAILING, CONSTANT AND SURE.
GOD IS FAITHFUL, EVER FAITHFUL.
HE’S OUR ROCK, AND WE STAND SECURE.
GOD IS FAITHFUL.

GOD’S WAY IS PERFECT.
AND HIS WORD IS PROVEN.
GOD’S TRUTH WON’T BEND
OR BREAK WITH THE TIDE.
HE IS OUR HAVEN,
OUR SHIELD AND OUR SHELTER.
WHEN STORMS OVERWHELM
HE STAYS BY OUR SIDE.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Bridge)
KEEPING HIS EV’RY PROMISE,
HEEDING OUR CRIES IN THE NIGHT;
GUIDING OUR EV’RY FOOTSTEP,
TURNING OUR DARKNESS TO LIGHT…

(Repeat Chorus)

© Robert Matthew Sterling Music

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