When faced with challenges, it is vital and comforting to know how and where to find peace. The phrase "peace, be still" often comes to my mind during anxious times. This hymn helps me focus on who can bring peace to my soul.
Master, the tempest is raging!
The billows are tossing high!
The sky is o’ershadowed with blackness.
No shelter or help is nigh.
Carest thou not that we perish?
How canst thou lie asleep
When each moment so madly is threat’ning
A grave in the angry deep?
[Chorus]
The winds and the waves shall obey thy will:
Peace, be still.
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea
Or demons or men or whatever it be,
No waters can swallow the ship where lies
The Master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, be still; peace, be still.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, peace, be still.
Check out all the verses - Master, the Tempest Is Raging
Text: Mary Ann Baker, ca. 1874
Music: H. R. Palmer, 1834–1907
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The hymn is based on this inspiring scripture about Christ and his disciples.
36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?
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Peace, Be Still
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Click here to read why Mary Ann Baker wrote this hymn (about half way into the article).
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