1.

Serve with gladness your Lord!
Heed His lifegiving Word!
Thus your life will bear fruit in abundance.
In your zeal firmly stand;
walk with Him hand in hand,
And with joy, golden fields you will harvest.

2.

O rejoice and be bold!
Let this world have no hold!
In your heart you will ne’er be regretful.
Speak the truth of God’s Word
while sojourning on earth
As a pilgrim and stranger in exile.

3.

Trials hard, life will bring;
after winter comes spring.
You will harvest—be faithful, have patience.
Only move in God’s peace,
for from this place of rest
Will your work here be crowned in abundance.

4.

Learn of Him; follow hard.
Just a little is told
Of the harvest so great He will gather.
He was tried like us all,
yet not once did He fall.
He will e’er be your Comfort and Leader.

Written in 1930 by Elias Aslaksen (published in 1932)Composed by Even SkogsrudText and melody © Stiftelsen Skjulte Skatters ForlagNorway ⋅ F