Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Avalon's recording keeps Thomas Chisholm's 1923 hymn text intact: "there is no shadow of turning with Thee, Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not." The phrase reaches for James 1:17's description of the Father of lights as the one "with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow."

"As Thou has been, Thou forever will be" echoes Numbers 23:19's claim that God is "not a man, that he should lie... has he said, and will he not do it?" "Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow" keeps the hymn's scope split evenly between present need and future confidence, neither one treated as more important than the other.