(This note was written the same night I wrote the song.) I have been meditating a lot on the book of Job lately, and tonight at church I figured out what the Lord would have me preach on Friday – Walking In The Dark – from Job 9:11; 23:8-10; 35:10, 14; and Isaiah 50:10-11. Also, I was thinking of some of those passages sort of to the tune of Since The Saviour Found Me (it was the last song we sang before the message). I know the syllables don’t completely fit the song, but they can go to the basic tune, if it was adapted slightly.
This song is also the introductory song to my initial poetry blog, Songs In The Night, that I started in 2006, when I no longer had the time necessary to make web pages from scratch and had to start posting my poems in a different format.
A Song In The Night
Though darkness hides the sunlight,
A song is in my soul;
In the night of my affliction,
The Lord is in control.
I cannot see His footsteps –
The path He leads me down;
All the way, there’s a promise:
His path leads to a crown.
Within the stormy blackness,
Jesus has His eye on me;
Though the darkness hide Him,
By faith I still can see.
Though nighttime falls around me,
The cross leads to the tomb,
My footsteps will not falter,
His Word lights up the gloom.
Though I know not the journey,
The Lord will take me through;
I will trust in my Saviour –
He has my best in view.
Even though my steps be darkened,
My Father knows the way;
And He will safely guide me –
From the shadows into day.
June 14th, 2006
Jerry Bouey
Job 35:10, 14 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night. Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.