Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Lincoln Brewster keeps Thomas Chisholm's hymn text unchanged, and the opening line makes a claim that doesn't rely on circumstance to hold up: "there is no shadow of turning with Thee, Thou changest not." Whatever else shifts, the hymn insists this one thing doesn't.

The chorus turns that stability into something noticed daily rather than declared once: "morning by morning, new mercies I see, all I have needed Thy hand hath provided." Faithfulness gets checked and confirmed fresh each day rather than just assumed.

The second verse widens the list of specific gifts — "pardon for sin and a peace that endures... strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow" — naming exactly what the faithfulness described in the chorus has actually provided. Lamentations' declaration that the Lord's mercies are new every morning gives that chorus its precise language, still holding up nearly two centuries after Chisholm first wrote it down.