GHS 144 : I Won’t Have To Cross Jordan Alone Lyrics
GHS 144, “I Won’t Have To Cross Jordan Alone,” is a hymn of deep comfort for the believer facing the final passage of death. The Jordan River is the biblical image of the boundary between this life and the next, and the hymn’s assurance is simple and unshakeable: Jesus will be waiting there. He has already atoned for sin, and He will not abandon His own at the darkest moment. Even when earthly friends have gone, when weariness and sorrow press in, and when the ending of day arrives, somebody is waiting at the river to show the way across.
This hymn appears as number 144 in the Gospel Hymns and Songs (GHS) collection, used in Deeper Life Bible Church and related assemblies across West Africa, and it brings particular peace at funerals and times of bereavement, reminding mourners and the dying alike that no believer faces that crossing alone.
Hymn Lyrics – GHS 144: I Won’t Have To Cross Jordan Alone
- When I come to the river at ending of day, When the last winds of sorrow have blown; There’ll be somebody waiting to show me the way, I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
I won’t have to cross Jordan alone, Jesus died for my sins to atone; When the darkness I see, He’ll be waiting for me, I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
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Often times I’m forsaken, and weary and sad, When it seems that my friends have all gone; There is one thought that cheers me and makes my heart glad, I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
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Tho’ the billows of sorrow and trouble may sweep, Christ the Saviour will care for His own; Till the end of the journey, my soul He will keep, I won’t have to cross Jordan alone.
