Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Shane & Shane keep Thomas Chisholm's hymn text unchanged, and the opening line makes a claim that doesn't depend 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 here isn't abstract; it's something checked and confirmed each day.

Lamentations' declaration that the Lord's mercies are new every morning gives the chorus its exact language, and Malachi's claim that "I the Lord do not change" backs up the opening verse directly. The final verse widens the evidence to creation itself — summer and winter, sun, moon, and stars — joining nature to the hymn's own witness rather than treating faithfulness as something only visible in personal circumstance.